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Scientists Clone Horse

Posted by timothy on from the of-course dept.

The Night Watchman writes "Italian scientists have produced the world's first horse clone, according to Yahoo News. Racing is likely to become slightly more interesting in the coming years..."

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  1. Horse Racing doesn't allow AI by dfinster · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thoroughbred's don't even allow artificial insemination (AI) much less embryo transplant, they are strictly live-cover only.

    In other breeds/diciplines it's fine. I'm not a breeding expert, but my wife and I own a stallion and we've shipped semen a few times to mare owners. A friend of ours runs a large operation this ships frozen and cooled equine semen. It's pretty interesting, actually. The technology is pretty advanced, and the recordkeeping / auditing requirements when dealing with million-dollar horses is staggering.

  2. From the article by secolactico · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The most obvious use is to give a sterile animal or animals that die or can't breed because of some disease a chance to reproduce," Galli said.

    Thus doing away with that pesky natural selection. Not that that's a bad thing... ;-)

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  3. Re:Catherine the Great by FannyMinstrel · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why would she have loved this, when it's a LIE