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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.


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