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 Why wasn't Cedric bred? In yesterday's Newswatch item which reported on Cedric's being injected with live DFTD cells, I posed the question: why risk injecting Cedric with live tumour cells instead of first putting him into the breeding program? I put this question and others to Associate Professor of Immunology, Greg Woods who was gracious enough to provide the following responses... Question: How did you make the decision to perform the injection [of live DFTD cells] rather than entering Cedric into a breeding program? Answer: Good question as we debated this - but I am confident that he won't develop the tumour. If tumour does develop, then his immune response is not protective, hence breeding from Cedric wouldn't help. Question: Alternatively, has he already been successfully bred prior to the injection? Answer: We plan to breed from Cedric to determine which genes are inherited - i.e. Will all his offspring also produce an immune response to the tumour? Note: Photo of Cedric from Telegraph.co.uk where it is attributed to the University of Tasmania
Posted by: admin on 31 Mar 2008 06:33 AM.
Updated by: admin on 31 Mar 2008 09:13 AM
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