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Biomedical Applications of Genetically Engineered and Cloned Animals

Last Updated: January 26, 2010

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Written by:

Bill Pohlmeier Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD Cooperative Extension Specialist

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University of California, Davis http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/animalbiotech

Biomedicine is the application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biochemistry, molecular biology, and microbiology, to human and veterinary clinical medicine. The field of biomedicine offers tremendous potential to treat pain and suffering in humans and animals worldwide. Biomedical research using genetically engineered and cloned animals is being conducted to produce therapeutic drugs for the treatment of human diseases, for the production of organs for human transplantation, and to study the effects that individual genes on body function.

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