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Scientists crack the cow code

This content was published on Apr 25, 2009 The Hereford cow’s gene map is the first livestock sequence, and the scientists think it will help explain how cattle evolved, why they ended up with a four-chambered stomach, and why they almost never get cancer. “This genome opens the door for new studies,” said Evgeny Zdobnov of Geneva University, one of 300 scientists from…