Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technology has become a useful tool for animal cloning, gene manipulation, and genomic reprogramming research. However, the standard mouse SCNT protocol remains expensive, labor-intensive, and requires hard work for many hours. Therefore, we have been trying to reduce the cost and simplify the mouse SCNT protocol. This chapter describes the methods to use low-cost mouse strains and steps from the mouse cloning procedure. Although this modified SCNT protocol will not improve the success rate of mouse cloning, it is a cheaper, simpler, and less tiring method that allows us to perform more experiments and obtain more offspring with the same working time as the standard SCNT protocol.
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