Brazilian Commission approves project that regulates animal cloning

Published 2022년 1월 6일

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The Chamber of Deputies' Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development in Brazil has approved Senate Bill 5010/13, which regulates the research, production, and sale of cloned domestic animals. The bill allows cloning of animals such as cattle, buffaloes, goats, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, rabbits, and birds. The government will maintain a publicly accessible database of genetic information to ensure control and ensure the identity and ownership of animal genetic material and clones. The bill also allows for the commercial production of clones of wild animals native to Brazil, with authorization from the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA).

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The Chamber of Deputies' Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development approved the Senate Bill 5010/13, which regulates the research, production and sale of cloned domestic animals. Under the proposal, domestic animals of zootechnical interest can be cloned: cattle, buffaloes, goats, goats, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, rabbits and birds. Cloning is the technique capable of making identical copies of multicellular individuals from a single cell. The result is an individual (clone) genetically identical to the organism that originated it. The rapporteur, Deputy Jose Mario Schreiner (DEM-GO), recalled that the technique of cloning animals began in Brazil in 2001, with the birth of Vitýria, a simmental breed heifer, as a result of research in the reproduction area developed by Embrapa since 1984. The process used was similar to that of the Dolly sheep, produced in 1997 by the company PPL Therapeutics, in Scotland. Schreiner, however, highlighted that so far ...

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