THE board of the Australian Wagyu Association plans to undertake a review of the practice of, and regulation surrounding genetic cloning, as used occasionally in the Australian beef industry.

Livestock cloning, predominantly executed via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), has been instrumental in both agricultural innovation and scientific research since the birth of Dolly in 1996. This ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas researchers are monitoring the spread of an invasive tick species that poses a threat to the state’s cattle through a dangerous blood parasite. Kansas cattle ranchers are facing ...

WASHINGTON - Researchers said they had shown cloning can work as a source of grow-your-own transplants, by implanting into cattle cloned cells which formed functioning kidney-like organs and working ...

Cloning is nothing new. While many of us recall the 1997 case of Dolly the cloned sheep, scientists have been tinkering with cloning since the late 1800s. But early experiments were more akin to ...

GRAND ISLAND -- State fair livestock exhibitor Ethan Renner of Crete didn't try to pick out something cute to call his chosen calf. "She has a lot of different names, but I don't think you'd want to ...