1952Cloning of First Vertebrate by Briggs and King

American developmental biologists Robert Briggs and Thomas K...
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1958

🐸 Cloning of First Vertebrate by Briggs and King

American developmental biologists Robert Briggs and Thomas King cloned the first vertebrate by transplanting nuclei from leopard frogs embryos into enucleated eggs. More differentiated cells were the less able they are to direct development in the enucleated egg.
BiologyDevelopmental BiologyCloningRobert BriggsThomas KingVertebratesCell DifferentiationReproductive Biology
United StatesUnited States

🐸 First Vertebrate Cloning

John Gurdon used nuclear transplantation to clone an African Clawed Frog; first cloning of a vertebrate using a nucleus from a fully differentiated adult cell.
First Vertebrate Cloning (1958)
CloningVertebratesCell BiologyGeneticsNuclear TransplantationDevelopmental BiologyJohn Gurdon
United KingdomUnited Kingdom