China Is Cloning Pigs on an “Industrial Scale”

Anew report by the BBCreveals that China is n’t just experiment with cloning — it ’s doing it on an “ industrial scale . ” Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a minuscule cause for business organization .

spearhead by a party call BGI , the engineering required to clone animals is n’t particularly new , but the program to aggregated production certainly is . In a report for the BBC , David Shukman explains what he saw when hevisited the deftness in China recently :

The first shed contains 90 animals in two long rows . They wait utterly normal , as one would gestate , but each of them is carrying clone embryos . Many are clones themselves . This place create an astounding 500 cloned pigs a yr .

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sow are anesthetize , and then have blastocysts — former microscope stage fertilized egg organise in a lab — inserted into their uterus . The team can do two transplantations a day , and achiever a hit - rate of about 80 percent . Disturbingly , Shukman explains that the operating theater is “ not aura - conditioned ; nor is it particularly clean . Flies buzz around the pig ’s head . ”

This all happens in an onetime shoe factory Shenzhen . Part sci - fi aspiration , part dystopian futurity , this is essentially a cloning factory and , clearly , it ’s tight becoming an industry . Indeed , as well as being the world ’s heavy meat for clone pigs , this place is also the mankind ’s big nerve centre for cistron sequence . It ’s home to 156 cistron sequencer ; by equivalence , Europe ’s largest factor sequence nub , the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge , UK , has 30 .

According to BGI ’s chief administrator , Wang Jun , the goal is to produce better healthcare and tastier solid food ( the stave mobile canteen in reality serve well produce make in - mansion ) . In many ways , that ’s pretty cool — this was opine to be future , but it ’s befall here and now — but the sheer pace and refutable standards described by Shukman provide at least some cause for concern . [ BBC ]

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