Like Dolly The Cloned Sheep, India’s First Cloned Assamese Buffalo Is Born!

Way back in 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned by humans in UK, and created history. In India, an Assamese cloned buffalo male calf was born for the first time, the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes claimed.

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Director of ICAR-CIRBInderjeet Singh informed that the Assamese buffaloes were found only in the north-eastern part of the country and they were used mainly for agricultural work.CIRB cloning team head PS Yadav said that they used unique methods and produced this clone calf, Sach-Gaurav, on December 22, 2017 through a normal delivery. The birth weight of the calf was 54.2 kgs and it was healthy with normal physiological parameters and blood profile.Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store