SCIENCE BRIEFING
Times Staff and Wire Reports
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, milk.
Now science knows why which is which; they’ve read the genome, without a hitch.
Poet Ogden Nash may have had cow basics down, but it took 300 scientists six years to outline the genetic sequence of L1 Dominette 01449, a Hereford cow on a research farm near Miles City, Mont.
Researchers led by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported their findings in 20 papers appearing in Friday’s edition of Science and other journals.
The researchers believe the findings will help improve the quality and safety of beef and dairy products and can be used to develop better ways of treating and preventing diseases that affect cattle.
