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- >From the New York Times's Late-News Update, Thurs., August 7
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- Wisconsin Company Introduces Cloned Bull That Could Lead to
- Beefier Steers
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- A biotechnology company unveiled a 6-month-old cloned calf
- Thursday, saying its new way of cloning could lead to beefier steer
- and cows that produce more milk.
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- ABS Global Inc. said the black bull calf named Gene was the result
- of cloning a stem cell from a 30-day old calf fetus. Stem cells are
- ``blank slate'' cells that haven't yet specialized their function,
- such as a liver or muscle cell, and thus their genes are relatively
- easy to manipulate. But company officials said they had refined the
- process so that any kind of cell could be used.
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- ``We can make an unlimited number of cells, freeze them for any
- amount of time, then thaw them and make identical animals
- possessing a desired trait,'' said Michael D. Bishop, vice
- president of research. The company's president and CEO, Marc van't
- Noordende, said it would be several years before the first products
- resulting from the process would be introduced.
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- Company officials said adult animal cells were not used to clone
- Gene, which makes him significantly different from Dolly, the sheep
- cloned last year by Scottish researchers. Dolly was produced from
- the udder cell of a 6-year-old ewe.
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