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Cloned pigs demonstrate continued commitment to advances in food biotechnology by UGA, Prolinia
The University of Georgia and ProLinia, Inc., an agricultural biotechnology genetics company, have produced three healthy cloned piglets from skin cells from a commercial hog. The piglets were born on May 24 and 27, 2002.
"This accomplishment and the methods used can be a benchmark to move forward developments in hog cloning efficiencies," said Steven Stice, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and chief scientific officer at ProLinia, Inc.
The hog cloning research team was led by ProLinia principal scientist Scott L. Pratt using technology acquired in a licensing agreement with Geron Corporation, the company that owns the technology used to clone Dolly the sheep. ProLinia has subsequently filed three additional improvement patents. This is the first time ProLinia has cloned hogs. FULL STORY
April 25, 2002
Scientists at UGA and ProLinia have produced the first calf ever cloned from cells of a slaughtered cow.
FULL STORY / PHOTOS
About Steven Stice
About Prolinia
About Georgia Research Alliance
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• Columns, July 16, 2001: Breakthrough in cattle-cloning technique announced
• Columns: Newest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar is cloning specialist
• Georgia Magazine: Brave New World
Athens Banner-Herald, August 15, 2001:Cloning expert sees great potential Q & A with UGA scientist Steven Stice
• Georgia Trend Magazine, Oct 1, 2001: UGA Eminent Scholar Steven Stice is among “40 under 40” named by Georgia Trend magazine as rising stars in the state. Stice holds an endowed chair of animal bovine reproductive physiology and also serves as chief scientific officer of ProLinia Inc., a company set up to use cloning and genetic engineering to improve animal agricultural practices.
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•April 25, 2002: The birth of K.C.
•June 26, 2001 press conference:
Breakthrough in cattle-cloning
technique announced
Photos of:
•Steven Stice
•Mike Wanner
•June 26, 2001: How the technique works |
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