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Health
by Tim Lee

The on-farm sexual revolution is getting closer to home

In 1995, an ordinary-looking lamb was born to a conventional Merino ewe.

But Larry the lamb was anything but ordinary. Larry made history as the world's first gender-selected sheep.

Scientists at the University of Sydney always knew they'd be getting a baby boy. They'd employed a process that sorted ram semen into male and female, and they chose to produce a male.

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