The world's first cloned yak was born in Lhasa, Tibet

At 12:40 noon on July 10, 2025, Fang Shengguo's team from Zhejiang University, in cooperation with the Tibet Plateau Biology Research Institute, used a combination of whole genome selection and somatic cell cloning to breed and produce the world's first somatic cell cloned yak at the Golden Wild Yak Breeding Research Base in Dangxiong County, Tibet.