India, April 29 -- Chinese researchers have been successful in cloning 10 healthy yaks, in what state-controlled media described as a 'breakthrough' in high-altitude livestock breeding.

The yaks were cloned in Damshung county of Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, as the Chinese government calls Tibet. All 10 cloned yaks were carried to term and born naturally between March 25 and April 5, according to an announcement from the county, China Daily, the website of the English-language daily newspaper of the same name owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party, noted.

According to the portal, "the calves were produced using a self-developed technology that creates 1:1 replications. The development could cut yak ...