China building world’s largest animal cloning factory to recreate sniffer dogs

China is building the world’s biggest animal cloning factory to recreate sniffer dogs, racehorses & beef cattle. In this regard, Chinese scientists have signed deal to create a commercial animal cloning centre in Tianjin, north eastern China.
Key facts:

• The factory would be built in the Tianjin Economic & Technological Development Area which is a business development park sponsored by the government.


• It is the joint project of Chinese bio-technology firm Boyalife & South-Korea’s Sooam Biotech. Peking University or Tianjin International Joint Academy of Bio-medicine are also part of it.


• The cloning factory will include cloning laboratories, a gene bank and a science education centre and will be constructed at the cost of 31 million US-dollars.


• It would produce cloned animals such as pet & police dogs, racehorses and cow to be sold on the open market on an industrial scale.


• The factory would produce 100,000 cattle embryos annually and later expand the annual output to 1 million.


• It would help to produce enough beef to meet increasing demand. It should be noted that China’s 1st commercial animal cloning center was established in 2014 in the eastern Shandong Province. Since 2000, Chinese Researchers have cloned sheep, cattle & pigs but not for non scientific research.


• In 2009, South- Korea’s customs service had deployed the world’s 1st cloned dogs.

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China building world’s largest animal cloning factory to recreate sniffer dogs