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Article: Despite dying after 2 days, cloned ox that gestated in womb of a cow called successful experiment by researchers.
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- January 31, 2001
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A cloned ox that gestated in the womb of a cow died of dysentery 2 days after it was born.
Scientists at TransOva Genetics in Sioux City, Iowa claimed bittersweet victory in an experiment that united cloning with interspecies birth with the goal of increasing the numbers of an endangered gaur, a wild ox found in India, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. The baby bull named Noah was believed to be the first animal to gestate in the womb of another species and survive through the late states of fetal development.
"The data collected clearly indicate that cross-species cloning worked, and as a scientist, I'm pleased," said Philip Damiani, a researcher with ...
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Article: Cloned Ox Dies From Infection; Despite Setback, ...
The Washington Post;
January 13, 2001 ;
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...Noah, a rare, cloned wild ox, was carried to term and born healthy to an Iowa farm cow named Bessie early this week, only to die two days later from a common bacterial infection, scientists said yesterday. The death of Noah, a humpbacked wild gaur native to the bamboo jungles of India and Burma,
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