Indian scientists clone a buffalo

By Aditya Mhatre at 12 February, 2009, 12:43 pm

One might think that a job at India’s National Dairy Research Institute might not look the best on your shaadi.com profile. Well, at least not until recently. But scientists at the National Dairy Research Institute revealed that they had successfully managed to clone a buffalo calf using a technique that is superior to the one used in cloning Dolly.

In a statement, scientists of the Animal Biotechnology Center at the Karnal-based NDRI said “The hand-guided cloning technique was an advanced modification of the conventional cloning technique used in cloning Dolly.” The scientist also said that using this technique the desired sex of the calf can be obtained.

You may think why is this a big deal, well imagine the rapid growth of population and guess what, the buffaloes don’t seem to be in a hurry to reproduce. So using this technique milk producing buffaloes can be produced at a much faster rate. I would like to give a big “mooooooo” to the scientist involved in this cloning act — S K Singla, R S Manik, M S Chauhan, P Palta, R A Shah and A George.

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