The world's first head cell clone cow "can all" die naturally at the age of 19.

Japan's Kyodo News Agency 14 quoted The same day in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, said that the Agricultural and Forestry Integrated Research Center animal production test site (the county's Baoda Zhishui) reared the world's first somatic cell cloned cattle "Canden" died, aged 19 years and 10 months.
or die of aging, the full cause of death is under investigation.
according to the county, can den from around the 4th of this month will be lying in the cattle house, need infusion supplementary nutrition.
had been able to feed on his own until the afternoon of the 14th, but the situation suddenly deteriorated and the veterinarian in charge of the care confirmed his death at around 4 pm. born in July 1998,
was the world's first cloned cow using cow cells.
, a joint study by Ishikawa Prefecture and The University of Niigata, uses the technology of "Dolly", a cloned sheep born in the United Kingdom.
Gaga, born with twins, is still kept at the test site.
Canden, Gaga was born, all over Japan has also been born a number of head cell cloned cattle, but most of them died in a short period of time or miscarried.
canden and Gaga both gave birth to calves.
is said to be conducting recent investigations into whether somatic cell cloned cattle live longer or shorter than regular cattle.
the life span of ordinary cattle is usually about 20 years. "It's tough, it's been going to be longer than expected, " said the
's director.
We've done our best to get to the 20th," he said.
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