What is the world's largest clone factory in China that mass-produces clones from cattle, race horses to pet dogs?

BySteve Jurvetson

As the world's first mammalian clone "dolly"Is known worldwide, but as of 2015 when about 20 years passed since the birth of Dolly in 1996, the largest clone factory in the world is operating in China, and from domestic animals for meat to pets A plan to mass produce as a clone is under way. The chairman of a biotechnology company managing such a cloned factory was interviewed by Telegraph.

China 'cloning factory' to produce cattle, racehorses and pets - Telegraph
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In Japan, the technology to make human clones is "Act on Regulation of Human Cloning Techniques etc.(Cloning technology regulation law) "is regulated. Although cloning technology on mammals other than humans is relatively acceptable, in Europe, the European Parliament is showing a movement prohibiting the sale of cloned livestock in September 2015 as "the cloning technology is not completely matured" I will. There are ethical and technical concerns in the technology to create clones, but BoyaLife, a biotechnology company in China, has started to operate the world's largest clone factory.

Regarding the situation where cloning technology is regulated globally, Xu Xiaochun, Chairman of BoyaLife said, "Is measures to ban the cloning technology based on scientific, ethical and political grounds? Although it should always be established based on science, it is wrong with respect to cloning technology ", commented Telegraph.

In China, it is becoming difficult to supply stable beef to the middle class, and the price of beef has tripled between 2000 and 2013. For that reason, interest in agricultural biotechnology is rising in China, but Xiaochun's huge cloned factory focuses not only on edible cows, but also on the production of clones such as race horses, police dogs and pet dogs It is said that.

ByPixel Pepp

"If you have obedient and intelligent dogs, you can produce one million from that one, usually you just need to check out a lot of dogs just to find a smart dog," Xiaochun said We are told that Xiaochun's bio laboratories of 15,000 square meters already have facilities such as gene banks. BoyaLife operates a South Korean partner company Sooam Biotech and a research institute and received a capital investment of 100,000 dollars (about 12 million yen) from a customer and already reported that it produced more than 550 child dogs It is. However, Mr. Hwang Woo Suk who is the top of Sooam Biotech who partnered with BoyaLife,Person who fabricated the paper of human embryonic stem cell in 2006It is a fact that can not be overlooked.

However, Mr. Wusok's experience on cloned dogs is recognized, and in 2014 these two companies in China and Korea jointly are endangered speciesTibetan dogIt is said that cloning has been successful. In the future, 100,000 cattle embryos will be produced per year in the cloned factory, and the final cloned embryo production will be expanded to 1 million.