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A Texas company said yesterday that it had cloned two champion cutting horses for $150,000 apiece, had established multiple clone pregnancies and would create as many as 30 more cloned horses over the next year, signaling the arrival of a commercial horse-cloning industry in the United States.
The plans by ViaGen Inc. of Austin represent by far the most ambitious effort yet to turn horse cloning into a paying business. There's little doubt that ViaGen, with one of the world's top cloning scientists in its stable, can pull off the necessary laboratory work, and not a single government rule or regulation stands in the way. But it remains to be seen how far the U.S. horse industry will go in embracing the technique that produced Dolly the sheep a decade ago and has since come to symbolize many people's fears about modern genetic science. While cloning is being welcomed by those who r...
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