RP guns for animal cloning
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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
WHAT do the sheep Dolly, the dog Snuppy and Amy the cow have in common? They’re all clones, exact copies of their parents from a single cell. Now the Philippines is hoping to replicate the same cloning techniques to deliver the country’s first cloned carabao or water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis carabanesis).
The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) and the Department of the Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCARRD) are working together to create a breed of cloned “super buffalos” for use primarily to improve the country’s livestock supply.
These super buffalos are actually the regular carabaos that have been naturally bred specifically to yield more milk and meat while resistant to carabao diseases. They have not been genetically modified in any way.
