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12/22/2024 03:38:19 pm

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China will open the world's biggest farm animal cloning facility in 2016.

China Opens World's Largest Animal Cloning Factory in 2016

Chinese and Korean biotechnology firms will open the largest farm animal cloning facility in Tianjin, to clone beef cattle and other farm animals.

The world's largest animal cloning factory is under construction in China

World's Biggest Animal Clone Factory Causes tension in China

World's biggest animal cloning factory is been constructed in China. The plan is to churn out horses, dogs and up to almost a million beef cattle a year, causing online unrest on Tuesday. According to Enca, the project costing about 200-million-yuan will include a gene bank and cloning laboratories. The facility is being implemented by Boyalife, a Chinese biotechnology firm and Sooam Biotech, South Korea's firm. The founder of Sooam Biotech was involved in a controversy ten years ago over claims to have cloned human embryos, together with two other Chinese research institutions.

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China to Open World's Largest Animal Cloning Factory in Tianjin

China is planning on building the world's largest animal cloning factory in Tianjin, which will churn out 1 million cloned cows a year, in addition to dogs, racehorses, and endangered species.

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