Noah the Gaur

A rare Asian ox called a Gaur was successfully cloned Sioux Center Iowa in 2003. It was successfully cloned and gestated in the womb of a cow which is a scientific first. The project was particularly interesting as it coupled cloning with that of interspecies birth. The researchers hope that technique may be able to to be used to shore up animal population.

The steps involved in this process are as follows.
1. Remove DNA from a unfertilized cow egg.
2. Insert full DNA strand from Gaur into the empty egg.
3. apply small electrical pulses to fuse.
4. Add chemicals to induce fertilisation events.
5. Place fertilized back inside cows uterus.

This process was repeated five times but only Noah made it to the late stages of fetal Development the other four were unfortunately spontaneously aborted. After Ten months of hard work by the scientists Noah the Gaur was born in Iowa. Unfortunately he died after 48 hours of life from Dysentry, "We don't think it had to do with the cloning,'Dysentery affects farm animals" Robert Lanza Vice president of scientific development at the center said.

Here is link to an interesting video on the cloning of Noah (warning video contains animal surgeries).

http://www.nature.com/stemcells/video/cloning/index.html