In Jammu and Kashmir, scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) have successfully cloned the first Pashmina goat. Director Research of SKUAST Shafiq A Wani said at a function in Srinagar that the healthy female kid was born on Friday using a foster mother and it took two years for standardisation of the technique . Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry made the breakthrough under the leadership of Associate Professor, Centre of Animal Biotechnology, Riaz Ahmad Shah. The success of this technology would open up new vista in strategic and applied research which includes multiplication of elite animals of desired sex and stem cell technology for regenerative medicine. This will also help in conservation of threatened wild and domestic animal species.