Sex sorting technology could reap millions
Thursday, February 25th, 2010A potential breakthrough in livestock semen sex sorting may add hundreds of millions of dollars to NZ’s dairy exports reports Stuff. Androgenix, a new company based at Auckland University’s Institute of Biotechnology, has been developing for almost three years a cost-effective process for sexing semen.
Co-founder and part-time chief executive Brent Ogilvie said he’s hoping to confirm Androgenix’s technology works this year. If successful, Androgenix will be able to offer semen sex-sorting technology to livestock insemination companies that is relatively low cost but with high fertilisation rates two problems that have plagued others attempting to control the sex of livestock born.
