Dolly for dinner? Assessing commercial and regulatory trends in cloned livestock

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-53

  Suk, J ^a   Bruce, A ^a,b   Gertz, R ^a   Warkup, C ^c   Whitelaw, C B A ^c   Braun, A ^b   Oram, C ^c   Rodriguez Cerezo E ^d   Papatryfon, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Genesis Faraday Partnership   (United Kingdom)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; DNA MODIFICATION; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMATIC CELL; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CLONING, ORGANISM; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 33846167435     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0107-47     Document Type: Review

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