It is too early to produce and apply cloned cattle Technology
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Last Update: 2001-12-10
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Author: User
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Introduction: Dr Yang Xiangzhong, a world-famous biotechnologist and the father of "Amy" of cloned cattle, thinks that cloning technology will certainly have great achievements in improving the traits of cows, but it is too early to be used in production practice He said that cloning technology can almost completely retain all the good characters of a variety, and lay a technical foundation for mass production, because there are too many epithelial cells in animals to count; cloning technology can be used for genetically modified genetic operation, and get cattle with improved characters However, cloning technology is a new technology developed in recent years after all As far as cattle cloning is concerned, its success rate is too low At present, the world average rate of successful cloning is 1-5% Yang Xiangzhong's Animal Technology Laboratory at the University of Connecticut has the highest success rate in the world, but only 10-15% Such a low success rate represents low efficiency and high cost, and its commercial value for production is conceivable AUW (author:) to feed Weibo to:
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