X-Message-Number: 14481
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:51:28 -0400
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Prize Bull Cloned
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Friday, Sept.
15, 2000
Canadian Scientists Clone World-Renowned Bull
QUEBEC (Reuters) - Canadian researchers said
Friday they
cloned a male calf from the cells of Canada's
world-renowned
Starbuck Holstein bull, which sired more than
200,000 cows,
bulls and calves before dying in 1998.
Scientists at Quebec's Artificial Insemination
Center and
University of Montreal's veterinary faculty are
expected to
make the announcement next Wednesday on the
birth of Starbuck 2
last week.
``Starbuck was a truly international star and
we are giving
birth to a new star,'' a spokesman at the
artificial
insemination center told Reuters on condition
of anonymity.
The original Starbuck, a celebrity among the
agricultural
community until his death at the age 20, was
famous for his
sturdy dairy frame, superb feet and legs.
Starbuck's frozen sperm was sold in more than
70 countries
in the hope of extending the genetic line of
the near-perfect
specimen of a bull.
The calf, temporarily known as Starbuck 2, was
born on
September 7 in Quebec and weighed 120 pounds at
birth.
Scientists say he is doing well.
``He is a perfect copy of his father. The
critical stage is
over and Starbuck 2 is very healthy,'' the
research center
spokesman told Reuters.
Tissues and cells were taken from Starbuck
before he died
in the fall of 1998 and a cloned embryo was
transplanted into a
cow in December 1999, the spokesman said.
``We expect that the calf will be as productive
as his
father, but longer,'' the spokesman said,
stressing the cloning
experiment focused on the transmission of
quality from
Starbuck.
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Can't be long before we hear of a human clone. I hope.
James
P.S. If anyone can put me intouch with Dean Kaman and Deka Research and
Development please do so. I have
several inventions I think he'd appreciate and when he wants to know why I
insist that 1/3 of the
proceeds go to cryonics and life extension research I/we will have the
opportunity to invite him to join
us and see the future with us.
--
Some of our views are spacious
some are merely space--RUSH
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