People magazine visited the Germinal Biotech Lab
To share with family Mellano this "dream" come true, People Magazine approached the Germinal Biotech Lab facilities in the town of Marcos Paz.
"Dream" is the first cloned goat in South America, "restless and playful," was presented in partnership in the arms of the President's Office, on 10 June. And despite the name they were baptized, it's a scientific reality, the product of research and dedication of several specialists.
In the issue published on June 29, 2010, People spent a colorful note with photographs and interviews with Michael Mellano , owner of Booths Millenium. It is there that this project comes familiar with the raising of goats , sheep and cows. And then build another ambitious undertaking: a laboratory Argentine scientist, working with Canadian colleagues, seeking to improve the quality of the production of goats. And with the bonus of audacity, to foster a market for these lean meats and economic, traditional Argentine market.
The article brings the reader the techniques and ways in which the "great achievement" of cloning becomes real. For example, inhalation anesthetics used, avoiding aggressive towards the animal, and the precarious situation in veterinary special equipment, which must contrive to make their own workshop inputs.
At the start of the intervention was removed from the animal oocytes (eggs), remove the core of it and is inserted into the DNA of the animal to be cloned. At this stage is used high technology, from a micromanipulator is "mete hand" within the cell.
But they are not the only Argentine eyes involved in turn is being transmitted to the team of veterinarians and biogenetistas Canada by videoconference.
Then, for the new nucleus to fuse with the cell, is given a minimum electrical discharge using a electromanipulador.
Finally, "they are stored in the" stove ", an incubator where they mature until they can be implanted in a female, that will take until the end of pregnancy."
Outside the laboratory contact with nature, the countryside and these beautiful animals recall the purpose of "creating life" pursued by this company familiar.La cloning improves and increases the reproduction, without hurting them. Biogenetics is the new way.
