Thirteen piglets
Chinese scientists have successfully cloned 13 pigs using robots for the first time
For the first time in the history of mankind, Chinese specialists successfully cloned pigs using robots. As the Global Times newspaper (Chinese scientists first to successfully use robots to clone pigs) reported on Wednesday, thanks to artificial intelligence, the first 13 artificially bred piglets were born.
"With proper application, the new technology will be of great importance, since it will increase the fertility of pigs, improve the physical qualities of individual individuals, ensure their health and reproduction," Zhao Xin, head of a group of scientists at Nankai University (Tianjin City), quotes the publication.
According to him, the staff of the Institute of Robotics and Automated Information Systems at this educational institution have done thousands of experiments with cloned embryos. All operations with DNA were carried out not manually, but by robots.
According to scientists, artificial intelligence turned out to be an excellent substitute for humans, both in terms of controlling the process of creating clones, and in terms of the degree of accuracy of the operations performed. As a result, the proportion of damaged cloned cells turned out to be less than usual.
"Thus, with the new technology, we can guarantee a high percentage of success," Zhao Xin stressed. He explained that our hands are not well suited for operations with cells, because they are too rough, while the robot does the work very carefully, without using excessive force, which can be disastrous for the experimental biological material. After the machine replaced the person, the degree of cell deformation decreased threefold.
It is expected that this successful experiment will form the basis of the latest technologies of artificial reproduction of organisms in a number of areas of practical significance in the future.
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06.07.2017