The world's first adult cattle-derived “clone cattle” Die Ishikawa October 10, 19:08
The world's first cattle derived from adult bovine somatic cells and bred at the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station died on the 9th.
One of the twins that were born as a cloned cattle derived from the somatic cells of adult cattle in 1998 was the result of joint research between the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Research Center and Kinki University in 1998. "is.
According to the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station, “Kaga” became difficult to get up from the end of last month, and died at around 21 noon on the 9th.
At the test site, the life of Kuroge Wagyu that has been bred without illness being confirmed by anatomy is around 20 years old.
Since “Kaga” was born with clone technology in 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has requested that the beef and dairy products be shipped using clone technology, and Ishikawa Prefecture Has discontinued research on cloned cattle.
“Kato” and the twin “Noto” who were born together died in May last year and currently have two cloned cattle at the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station.