Son of a clone is born

The first cloned horse is a female called Prometea, born in 2003. She was produced by a team led by Cesare Galli, director of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, Italy. On 17 March 2008, she gave birth to a foal called Pegaso.

Previous cloned animals have experienced severe health problems. Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, died unusally young after developing first arthritis (at five-and-a-half years) and then an incurable lung disease. No-one has yet produced a cloned adult monkey, but clone embryos have been made - and their cells are abnormal.

Source: New Scientist