1958 ⟶ First Vertebrate Cloning

John Gurdon used nuclear transplantation to clone an African...

Year

1952

1958

1996

🐸 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 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.⟶

CloningVertebratesCell BiologyGeneticsNuclear TransplantationDevelopmental BiologyJohn Gurdon

United Kingdom

🐑 Dolly the sheep, the first cloned adult mammal

Dolly the sheep was first clone of an adult mammal.⟶

BiologyCloningDolly the SheepRoslin InstituteGeneticsReproductive TechnologyAdult Mammal1990s

United Kingdom