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History

K.C. was produced by cloning using a kidney cell taken from a carcass. She is shown here with her traditionally bred calf Sunshine, who was born December 17, 2004.

ViaGen was founded in Austin, Texas in January 2002 to provide commercial bovine, equine, and porcine gene banking, cloning, and genomics services.

In 2003, ViaGen acquired ProLinia of Athens, Georgia. This acquisition doubled our cloning capacity, gave us the ability to produce clones from cells obtained from carcasses, and provided rights to cloning technologies developed by the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Currently, ViaGen has approximately 50 employees, and is recognized as the global leader in commercial animal gene banking and cloning services.