Everything about Prometea totally explained
Prometea (born
May 28,
2003) is a
Haflinger foal, the first
cloned
horse and the first to be born from and carried by its cloning mother. Her birth was announced publicly on
August 6,
2003. Born 36
kg after a natural delivery and a full-term pregnancy in
Laboratory of Reproductive Technology,
Cremona,
Italy, Prometea at 2-month-old is 100 kg (220 pounds).
Dr. Cesare Galli and others at the lab experimented with 841 reconstructed embryos; of the 14 viable embryos four were implanted in surrogate mothers - only that of Prometea succeeded in being born.
Texas A&M University was also undertaking a horse cloning project when the Italian team first succeeded.
Horse cloning like Prometea could eliminate the problem of champion
racing geldings.
Jockey Club of
North American thoroughbred horses has proclaimed, however, that it'll allow no cloned horse in their races.
The name
Prometea is the
feminine form of
Prometeo ("
Prometheus" in
Greek).
The horse is the seventh
species to be cloned (See
Cloning for a list and names).
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