It's a girl: Scientists in Dubai claim first cloned camel

[Forkboy]

Looks like science just cleared another hump in the road to cloning.... Thank you, I'm here all week, try the veal!

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai, the second-largest sheikdom in the United Arab Emirates, said it has cloned a camel for the first time and called it Injaz, or "achievement" in Arabic.

The female camel was born last Wednesday, the Camel Reproduction Centre financed by the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, said yesterday.

The first animal cloned from adult cells was Dolly the sheep, born in the United Kingdom in 1996. Since then, others have included mice, cattle, goats, rabbits, cats, mules, and pigs.

"This significant breakthrough in our research program gives a means of preserving the valuable genetics of our elite racing and milk-producing camels in the future," Lulu Skidmore, scientific director of the Camel Reproduction Centre, said in an e-mailed statement.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/04/15/its_a_girl_scientists_in_dubai_claim_first_cloned_camel/

"Camel Reproduction Centre"??????? I tell ya, you learn something new everyday! :silly:

[Bicoastal]

1. Like Dubai needs any more friggin camels.

[Believing Is Art]

2. Sally The Camel

came from no humps.