NEW DELHI: Scientists in the Indian state of Haryana have cloned a buffalo using foetal tissue, according to a report.The female calf named Garima weighed 43 kilograms (95 pounds) and was born at the National Dairy investigate Institute in the urban of Karnal in northern India, according to an Indian newspaper."Garima is absolutely healthy and we are fully optimistic about her survival," institute director A.K. Srivastava was quote as saying.India cloned the world's first buffalo in February, but it died of pneumonia within a week of its birth after being formed from the ear tissue of a female buffalo.Scientists cloned Garima using tissue from a foetus as part of a "hand-guided cloning technique" which allows the sex of the calf to be selected.Srivastava said India has the largest population of buffaloes in the world and that cloning would increase the proportion of elite animals in the species.
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