AUSTRALIA: What’s the beef? A cloned bull

A cloned elite dairy bull has been born recently, the results of collaboration between Genetics Australia and the Monash Institute of Reproduction & Development . Melbourne scientists claim that the birth was a breakthrough for the dairy and beef industries because the bull's semen output is effectively doubled, and the genetic line continued using in-vitro fertilisation techniques.

July 18, 2001

A cloned elite dairy bull has been born recently, the results of collaboration between Genetics Australia and the Monash Institute of Reproduction & Development.

Melbourne scientists claim that the birth was a breakthrough for the dairy and beef industries because the bull’s semen output is effectively doubled, and the genetic line continued using in-vitro fertilisation techniques.