Application perspectives of animal biotechnology

Farm animals and their products have a longstanding and successful history of providing significant contributions to nutrition, clothing, facilitation of labour research,development and medicine, and have thus been essential in improving life, expectancy and human health. With the advent of novel reproductive technologies, such as somatic cloning and embryo in vitro production, and their convergence with new molecular genetic tools and genetic information arising from genomic sequencing projects, new perspectives are derived for the production of farm animals. Farm animals can be used for a broad range of applications, both in biomedicine and agriculture. The present article discusses various aspects for the application of genetically engineered animals in the context of future challenges.

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