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Thailand First In Southeast Asia To Clone Calf BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to deliver a calf cloned from an adult cow's ear cells, reports said. The 27-kilogram (60-pound) female black calf was named Ing, Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Veterinary Science announced over the Internet. Ing was the sixth cloned calf in the world to be delivered and the first in Southeast Asia. Chulalongkorn researchers had combined cells cultured from the ear of an adult cow and the eggs of another cow, producing a batch of embryos that were implanted into surrogate mothers. Of the 14 cows that researchers initially implanted with embryos, only four became pregnant. Two of the four miscarried. Veterinarians hope that the other still-pregnant surrogate mother will deliver on March 20. The world's first mammal to be cloned from an adult animal was a sheep, christened Dolly, born in Scotland in 1997. Japanese researchers produced the world's first cloned calf in July 1998 at a livestock center in the Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa. "
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