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In January, researchers at the National Chung Hsing University, in Taichung, Taiwan, announced that they had successfully cloned two miniature pigs using a new technology called oocyte bisection. They used the technique, which costs one-sixth as much as the traditional method and requires one-third of the manpower, to produce two litters of piglets; two of those pigs subsequently gave birth to new litters.
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