What happens when you clone a Brazilian cow?
| Curtis |
Monday, April 29, 2002 at 8:34 PM |
Answer: You get a bull
"He may not be the clone we hoped for but he'd at least be a clone."
-- Jose Visintin, chief veterinarian on Brazilian project to clone a cow.
The donor was a cow (female), and the team was quite surprised, and equally puzzled, to find that the resulting cloned calf was a bull (male). They are still trying to figure out how that one happened.
| Curtis |
Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 2:55 PM |
followup...
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian (news - web sites) scientists confirmed that a bull calf born over the weekend was accidentally cloned as a result of a mix-up in the laboratory, the University of Sao Paulo says.
"Marcolindo was in fact a clone and a first for Brazil in that he was created from somatic cells," said Luiz Nunes de Oliveira, head of research at the university.
