From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 01:42:13 MST
Damien quotes
> Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, died unexpectedly of unknown
> causes, the South Australian Research Institute (SARDI) announced today.
>
> Her body was found by staff on Sunday morning.
>
> "On Saturday, when she was last inspected, she was remarkably healthy," Mr
> Lewis told AAP today.
I would check the original. Perhaps at long last we have an
example of long range sympathetic resonance / blood-action
to study.
Lee
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> Subject: dead clone
>
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/07/1044498961733.html
>
> Matilda's waltz ends
>
> February 7 2003
>
>
> Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, died unexpectedly of unknown
> causes, the South Australian Research Institute (SARDI) announced today.
>
> Executive Director Rob Lewis said an independent autopsy failed to identify
> what killed Matilda, who died at the Turretfield Research Centre, north of
> Adelaide, on the weekend.
>
> Her body was found by staff on Sunday morning.
>
> "On Saturday, when she was last inspected, she was remarkably healthy," Mr
> Lewis told AAP today.
>
> "The animal has been particularly sprightly and her death was very
> unexpected."
>
> He said ongoing observations of Matilda since she was born in April 2000
> showed she was a healthy animal.
>
> Scientists cloned Matilda using a technique similar to that used for the
> world's first cloned sheep, Dolly, in Scotland in 1996.
>
> Matilda, at the age of nine months, gave birth to healthy triplets using a
> speed-breeding technique.
>
> That was more than a year younger than most sheep, and her offspring have
> gone on to successfully reproduce. [etc]
>
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