Businessman Huang Yu has become the proud pet parent of China’s first cloned cat. Devastated by the death of his previous cat, Garlic, Huang sought the services of biotechnology company Sinogene. The ...

Now, in an Advanced Online Publication from Nature,Taeyoung Shin and colleagues demonstrate that cats (Felis domesticus) can be cloned too (Nature 2002, DOI: 10.1038/nature723). Shin et al. isolated ...

And the country's scientists have big aspirations for their next cloning challenge, working on the theory that if cats can be cloned, so can pandas. Chen Dayuan -- an expert at the Chinese Academy ...