The world's first goat cloned from an adult goat body cell, Yang Yang, is expected to give birth again at the Yangling high-tech experimental zone in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, in the first month of the Year of the Goat.
Yang Yang, a cloned goat born in 2000, became pregnant after a natural mating with an Angola goat. Medical examinations show the pregnancy is normal.
Qing Qing, a twin daughter of Yang Yang and born in August, 2001, has also been found pregnant and would give birth this month, said Professor Zhang Yong, of the Northwest China Science and Technology University for Agriculture and Forestry.
(Xinhua News Agency February 6, 2003)
