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13 Colo. J. Int'l Envtl. L. & Pol'y 215 (2002)
Cloning and the Conservation of Species

handle is hein.journals/colenvlp13 and id is 735 raw text is: Cloning and the Conservation of Species I. INTRODUCTION Years ago, people realized that economic development causes disas- trous effects on the environment. These effects range from acid rain to global warming to the destruction of the rainforests. No sector of the world remains untouched from humanity's path toward development, in- cluding wildlife. Every day another species ceases to exist. One main reason for this extinction is loss of habitat. In 2001, a group of scientists attempted to combat this phenomenon. By fusing skin cells taken from an endangered animal and infusing them into cow eggs, the scientists made history.' Specifically, researchers and their collaborators fused somatic cells of the endangered gaur with the enucleated oocytes (eggs) from a domestic cow.2 A transfer was then made from the resultant em- bryos to surrogate domestic cows where they continued to gestate for over a year and a half.3 Once the gestation period ended, a baby gaur was born to the domestic cow carrying it.4 The company sponsoring the project was Advanced Cell Technol- ogy (ACT), located in Worcester, Massachusetts.5 ACT does research in the areas of human cloning as well as endangered species conservation through cloning.6 The animal cloned in 2001 was a gaur-a wild ox na- tive to Southeast Asia. Scientists describe the gaur as a large, wild ox 1. Gretchen Vogel, Cloned Endangered Species is Born, Dies, Sc1. Now, Jan. 12, 2001, at http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fuli/2001/112/2. 2. Cloning: Bringing Back Endangered Species, APPLIED GENETIC NEWS, Oct. 2000, at http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/mODED/3_21/66520544/print.jhtml. 3. Id. 4. Id. 5. Vogel, supra note 1. 6. Advanced Cell Technology, Endangered Species Cloning, at http://www. ad- vancedcell.com/endangered.html (visited Jan. 26, 2002); see also, Advanced Cell Tech- nology, Autologous Regenerative Medicine, at http://www.advancedcell.com/ht- program.html (visited Jan. 26, 2002). 7. Vogel, supra note 1.

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