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Livestock embryo transfer

Recorded year1951

The first calf is born from an embryo moved into another cow, letting one prize cow have many calves through surrogate mothers.

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Artificial insemination of cattleRecorded · 1936enables

Led to

In vitro fertilisationRecorded · 1978requires
Mammal cloningRecorded · 1996enables
First cloned dogRecorded · 2005enables
Gene-edited disease-proof pigsRecorded · 2025enables
De-extinct speciesForecast · ~2055enables
Human organs grown in pigsForecast · ~2062enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.