Biology
- John Gurdon clones a frog using somatic-cell nuclear transfer from a Xenopus tadpole.
- Anne McLaren, with John D. Biggers, reports the first mammals, a litter of mice, grown from embryos developed in vitro and transferred to a surrogate mother.
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