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Scientist Profile:
Steen Willadsen

 In 1985 Steen Willadsen, the first to clone a farm animal using the nuclear transfer method, joined Grenada Genetics, a bioengineering company. Willadsen used his cloning technique to duplicate the embryos of prize cattle. Grenada Genetics saw the profitability of the future cattle cloning industry. Top breed cattle embryos were highly desired by farmers, Willadsen's procedure mass produced identical copies of such embryos.

At Grenada, Willadsen successfully cloned cattle from differentiated week old embryo cells. This feat proved that the DNA of specialized cells could be returned to its original state.

Acting nearly simultaneously with Grenada Genetics, several biotechnology corporations jumped into the cattle cloning business, and a new industry had begun.

The Cattle Cloning Industry

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