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Cloning may cause health defects
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BMJ
1999;318:1230.3
- Judy Jones
- MalmesburyWiltshire
Cloning may cause long term health defects, a study by French scientists has suggested. A two month old calf, cloned from genes taken from the ear of an adult cow, died after developing blood and heart problems.
The cloning process seemed to have interfered with the normal genetic functioning of the developing calf, according to the researchers whose findings are reported in the Lancet …
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