LIVESTOCK
August 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
An American company that normally supplies its breeding services to
livestock producers has been developing a sideline serving the
pharmaceutical industry. Its leap into biotech could offer a
glimpse of how the meat and livestock trade might discover some future
crossover
business.
Trans Ova Genetics, based in Iowa, has been providing reproductive
technology to seedstock producers for over 20 years. Now it finds itself
one of the few agricultural suppliers who have ventured into supplying the
pharmaceutical industry: it transfers embryos ...
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