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| North Korea clones rabbits |
| 2003-07-10 |
| North Korea has successfully cloned two male rabbits who have gone on to reproduce, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said today. The rabbits, cloned a year ago by the institute of experimental biology under the North’s academy of science, have since fathered dozens of leverets, the agency said in a dispatch monitored here. They got rabbits to breed? Quick, call the Nobel Prize committee! "Researchers of the institute made two rabbits (male) in July last year by developing a somatic cell cloning technology based on fibroblast derived from 15-day-old foetus," the agency said."The one-year observation of these rabbits proved that they had fertility. The rabbits have already produced tens of leverets." What are they feeding them, White Slag? The people are eating all the grass. Though bankrupt North Korea has suffered from chronic food and energy shortages, the Stalinist state’s media says it is forging ahead with cutting edge biotechnology research. "Our next project is getting a chicken to cross the road. All we need is a chicken." |
| Posted by:Steve |