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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Chinese scientists create cloned lamb with 'good' fat in its meat

Chinese scientists create cloned lamb with 'good' fat in its meat: "Scientists there have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a ‘good’ type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease.  

‘Peng Peng’, which has a roundworm fat gene, weighed in at 5.74 kg when it was born on March 26 in a laboratory in China's far western region of Xinjiang.  

‘It's growing very well and is very healthy like a normal sheep,’ lead scientist Du Yutao at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) in Shenzhen in southern China told Reuters."

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