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Recombinant growth hormone for cows

Recorded year1993

The US approves Monsanto's bovine somatotropin made by engineered bacteria, raising each cow's milk yield by about a tenth.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.