Efficient nuclear transfer using fetal fibroblasts and multiple cloning procedures

US6600087B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Agrobiogen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gottfried Brem · Markt Indersdorf, DE
• Gabriela Durcova-Hills · Cambridge, GB
• Sigrid Müller · Diepholz, DE
• Wolfgang Schernthaner · Oberschleißheim, DE
• Hendrik Wenigerkind · Dießen, DE
• Eckard Wolf · Oberschleißheim, DE
• Valeri Zakhartchenko · Oberschleißheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 1999
• Grant date: Jul 29, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01K2267/01
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to a process for breeding animals through cloning as well as animals obtainable with the process, in particular to a process for the reproduction of animal embryos via an efficient nucleus transfer with foetal fibroblasts.