સોમવાર, 21 ઑગસ્ટ, 2017

Country’s first calf born to surrogate cow in mobile lab

The oocytes were kept in a special incubator, which worked as an artificial uterus, for nearly 24 hours. Meanwhile, semen was collected from a Gir bull. The process of fertilisation then began — in a petridish inside the incubator, at a temperature of 38.5 degree centigrade.

EARLY ON Sunday morning, at 2:40 am, the Pathan family in Indapur, about 140 kilometres from Pune, celebrated the birth of a new family member — Vijay, the country’s first calf delivered by a surrogate or recipient cow through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) technology carried out in a mobile laboratory.

This is the first time that the procedure was successfully implemented at a farm, with the help of a mobile laboratory. The aim is to take the technology to the farmer. They carry out the entire procedure in front of the farmer, with mobile IVF lab.

In Vijay’s case, the donor cow, Ratan, belongs to the Gir breed, whose population across the country is around one lakh currently — unevenly spread across Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. On an average, it gives 10-12 litres of milk daily.

Under the JK Trust’s initiative, JK BovaGenix, aimed at promoting genetically superior indigenous cattle breeds, the oocytes, or immature eggs, of the donor cow were collected from  Rachana Cow Farm, owned by the Pathan family, on November 9, 2016.
The doctors who carried out the project under Zavar include Dr Vinod Patil, Dr Pradeep Tiwari, Dr Ramakant Kaushik and Dr Amol Sahare.

At present, JK Trust has two state-of-the-art Embryo Transfer and IVF laboratories, known as Dr Vijaypat Singhania Centre of Excellence Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Livestock at Gopalnagar, near Bilaspur, in Chhattisgarh and Vadgaon-Rasai near Pune.


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