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Hematech has steadily grown in Sioux Falls since the company relocated here from Connecticut in 2002. Now owned by Kirin Pharma Co. of Tokyo, the company has received grants and funding for developing immunological therapies against potential bio-terrorism for the US Department of Defense. Hematech has also done significant work in studying methods to prevent BSE, often referred to as “mad cow disease,” from attacking American herds.

Hematech’s success in working with genetically engineered animals was recently illustrated by the celebration of the tenth birthdays of George and Charlie, the world’s oldest cloned cattle. Less celebrated than the now-deceased cloned sheep Dolly, George and Charlie are happily retired on a farm south of Sioux Falls, healthily living normal lives and proving the “normality” of cloned cattle.