LSU AgCenter
The 3,000-acre Central Research Station south of Baton Rouge is the one among the LSU AgCenter’s 15 research stations that has brought about the most international acclaim, but it is little known outside of the LSU campus.
The fame came from two remarkable events that happened there. Back in 2000, the world’s first transgenic goat was born at the station and then cloned to create a herd of goats that produced a substance in their milk that could be turned into a valuable heart medication. This was four years after Scotland’s historic Dolly the sheep was cloned.