Spring Break
A&M clones horse
University becomes first school to clone six species in world
By: Rhiannon Meyers
Issue date: 4/28/05 Section: News
Hinrichs added that she does not expect A&M to get any backlash from environmental groups about the clone.
"People are starting to understand that it's not going to be like Star Wars where 10,000 clones are running around," she said. "I can't see what environmentalists will have a problem with. People have been accepting of this around here."
Michael Bell, freshman biomedical sciences major on a pre-veterinary medicine track, said he is excited that A&M has cloned a horse and that cloning will be beneficial in saving endangered species.
"It makes me feel proud that I go to a school that deals so much with research and the advancement of science," Bell said. "I think (cloning a horse) will really make an even bigger name for ourselves in the world as far as science and technology is concerned."
Nicky Ferwerda, A&M Horse Center manager, said cloning will definitely help the breeding programs, but she does not anticipate the center will use cloning in the immediate future to replace its breeding program. However, she said cloning definitely raises moral questions.
"It opens a lot of doors and creates a lot of questions about what is right and wrong in science versus nature," Ferwerda said. "I don't know if that's morally right or not. It's definitely going to create some opportunity. It's also going to cause some waves."
Hinrichs said she was excited she was able to witness and assist with Paris' birth from his recipient mare, Greta.
"I was the first guy he met when he came out," she said.
"People are starting to understand that it's not going to be like Star Wars where 10,000 clones are running around," she said. "I can't see what environmentalists will have a problem with. People have been accepting of this around here."
Michael Bell, freshman biomedical sciences major on a pre-veterinary medicine track, said he is excited that A&M has cloned a horse and that cloning will be beneficial in saving endangered species.
"It makes me feel proud that I go to a school that deals so much with research and the advancement of science," Bell said. "I think (cloning a horse) will really make an even bigger name for ourselves in the world as far as science and technology is concerned."
Nicky Ferwerda, A&M Horse Center manager, said cloning will definitely help the breeding programs, but she does not anticipate the center will use cloning in the immediate future to replace its breeding program. However, she said cloning definitely raises moral questions.
"It opens a lot of doors and creates a lot of questions about what is right and wrong in science versus nature," Ferwerda said. "I don't know if that's morally right or not. It's definitely going to create some opportunity. It's also going to cause some waves."
Hinrichs said she was excited she was able to witness and assist with Paris' birth from his recipient mare, Greta.
"I was the first guy he met when he came out," she said.
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