The scientists who produced the world’s first clone born to the horse family have announced that the third cloned mule foal was born yesterday (July 27).

The team includes Gordon Woods, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACT, and Dirk Vanderwall, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, both UI professors of animal and veterinary science, and Ken White, PhD, a professor in Utah State’s Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences Department. The scientists won the worldwide race to clone an equid with the birth of Idaho Gem May 4 (see article #4434). Utah Pioneer, the world’s second equid clone, was born June 9. The third mule clone was born at about 1:30 a.m., July 27