Tianjin animal cloning center
The Tianjin animal cloning center is a cloning factory currently under construction in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area of Tianjin, China.[1]
Development
The factory is being developed by Sinica, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Boyalife, along with the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Peking University, the Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine, and the Sooam Bioengineering Research Institute in South Korea.[2]
Facility and operations
The 14,000-square-metre facility will have a laboratory, a cloning center, a gene bank, and educational exhibits for the public.[1] The consortium plans to spend 200 million RMB (31 million USD) to produce 100,000 cloned cattle per year for China's rapidly growing beef market, with plans to expand to one million cattle per year[3][2] (China planned to buy one million head of cattle from Australia in 2016 at a cost of 2 billion USD[4]). In addition to cows, the factory plans to clone many different types of animals, including dogs, horses, and endangered and extinct animals.[5][6]
See also
References
- ^ a b Wei, Jiang (November 23, 2015). "Tianjin plans world's largest animal cloning factory". China Daily. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ^ a b "Animal cloning center to be built in Tianjin". Boyalife. Press release. November 23, 2015
- ^ "World's biggest clone factory raises fears in China" Agence France-Presse. Phys.org. November 24, 2015.
- ^ Basulto, Dominic (4 December 2015). "China to solve future food shortage by cloning cows in 2016". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ Clover, Charles; Cookson, Clive (November 24, 2015). "Chinese-Korean joint venture to mass-produce cloned beef cattle". The Financial Times. (subscription required)
- ^ Davis, Rebecca (November 30, 2015). "China 'clone factory' scientist eyes human replication". Agence France-Presse. Yahoo! News. Retrieved December 1, 2015.