Take a closer look at what’s new in assisted equine reproduction and what that means for horses and humans in this article from The Horse‘s Research Roundup issue.
Researchers have confirmed that a female horse has been cloned from a male.
Researchers found that 90% of stem-cell-cloned foals were “completely healthy and normal” at birth, whereas two-thirds of the skin-cell-cloned foals were not.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the AQHA in a long-running case involving the registration of clones.
The ruling overturned a lower court decision mandating that the AQHA include clones in its registry.
Several groups support the AQHA in its bid to overturn a court decision regarding cloned horse registrations.
The AQHA has filed the latest installment in a long-running court case relative to cloned horse registration.
The AQHA has asked a federal court to stay clone registrations pending the outcome of an appeal.
Judge Mary Lou Robinson said she will sign an order requiring the AQHA to register cloned animals.
Rusty, who was 25 when he was euthanized last week, has two clones to carry on his genetic legacy.
A jury found the AQHA’s rule forbidding the registration of cloned horses is a violation of antitrust laws.
A lawsuit challenging AQHA rules preventing registration of cloned horses heads to court this week.
Cloning science advanced when the world?s first filly produced by a clone and out of a clone was born.
Scamper, the champion Quarter Horse barrel racing gelding who was cloned in 2006, died July 4 at 35-years-old.
The legality of cloning and embryo transfer in horses were discussed at a recent equine law convention.
Rule 227(a) prohibits cloned horses or their offspring from being included in the AQHA breed registry.
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