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...Some are further along. In 2002, Japan's Kinki University successfully bred and raised bluefin in pens and is now selling small amounts of the farmed fish. This year, Clean Seas, an Australian fishing company, got its southern bluefin living in a land-based tank to spawn eggs that were raised to be fingerlings - a breakthrough in the growth cycle. The success was so unexpected that Clean Seas had to leave all but a few of the young fish to die; there wasn't enough room to let them grow...
First there was Dolly the Scottish sheep. Then, last July, came several litters of cloned mice. Now scientists at Japan's Kinki University have produced something even bigger and a good deal tastier: eight identical calves cloned from a single...
...knows why the Kinki team managed to bat .800 (while Dolly's creators needed 29 embryos to get one hit). Japanese scientists hope to learn more when other calves--cloned from liver, kidney and heart cells--are born next spring. The beef industry is anxiously awaiting the answer: the clones come from a line of prize cows whose meat sells for $100 a pound...
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