The first cloned cow in the world, called Kaga , has died this Wednesday from natural causes at age 21 and three months in the research center of the center of Japan that saw her born, government sources report.
Kaga was born in July 1998 at the Ishikawa Provincial Livestock Research Center as part of an investigation with the so-called Kinki University (now Kindai University ), in which the same technique used to clone two years earlier was used to Dolly the sheep in the UK .
As a result of the Japanese research on bovine cloning, two twin cows were born, Kaga and Noto, who died in May 2018.
Kaga, who has perished for old age (the life expectancy of cows is between 20 and 25 years) began to have problems to sustain himself in September and had been receiving nutritional and anti-inflammatory supplements in the legs, according to the explanation of center officials Pick up by the Kyodo news agency.
In early October, the cow could no longer stand and her death has been declared this Wednesday, the sources added.
In 2006, 14 cloned cows had been produced at the Japanese center, but the research (which aimed to improve meat and milk production) was reduced after the distribution of cloned beef was restricted in Japan in 2009.
Ishikawa cloned cattle have been kept for the study of the life expectancy of these animals.
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