From Douglas Beatty
Thursday, January 25, 2001
Dennis,
The attached information may be of benefit to you and our team...
Just visited your site, again. The sites is very informative as usual and if there is any items on our web that you believe would be of benefit on your site please send your request and I would be very happy to supply information as long as it is public knowledge. We have just finished a photo shoot on the line of products available plus industry / corporate profiles written regularly from Dr. Carlson, Dr. Gourley and other industry professionals who have been invited to post on to our site monthly which should give the investing public more valuable info on our industry and why STRU is making an impact and where we are heading with this technology. Also, reading my e-mail many have sent articles relating to cloning and xenotransplants and how STRU can make a difference in these areas. I will be addressing these areas shortly as I feel that they are items, which are of importance, and as always I follow these developments with a great sense of interest.
An example of this would be recent posts indicating that cloning will replace the new technology of the GS system. To put this item to rest I can assure anyone that with the Gourley Scope (GS) one can implant cloned or fertilized embryos fast and safely without the need to anesthetize the recipient animal. This is not speculation; it is a true and repeated fact, which the team and I have preformed with much success. The most interesting fact is that we have taken folks such as secretarial staff and trained them within 30 min. to perform this procedure. By visually seeing where you are placing embryos through our optic system there is very little room for errors. Another point, which I should address, is that there is another deep uterine insemination device on the market that does not employ optics. We have worked with this device and because it does not have any optical attachments such as ours, you can not see where you are going and in speaking with those that have used this other device, an untrained professional can by accident perforate the reproductive tract causing harm to the animal and obviously placing embryos or semen in an area not suitable for maximum conception.
Recently, Dr. Gourley and I were demonstrating the GS system at a client’s location and by actually viewing the reproductive tract we were able to view disease present in the reproductive tract. Following this we were able to explain that this animal would not be suitable for conception. However, because we were able to identify the disease present we could then infuse antibiotics directly to the area, which presented the disease. You could not have done this unless you actually viewed the surface area of the reproductive tract using the GS system. Using the other system on the market, one would never have even known a disorder was present.
Therefore, I will highlight that there are a series of benefits we employ and selling features of the GS system:
1) Continuous viewing of the reproductive tract while traversing and entering the vagina, cervix, uterine cavity and finally the uterine horns of the animal.
2) Viewing any pathogens present.
3) As in the case of placing cloned embryos, this is a very costly and time-consuming procedure. Therefore, if you enter an animal and you see disease present in the reproductive tract you can abort the procedure as the likelihood of embryos attaching to the wall of the uterine body is virtually impossible. Saving time and the capital invested in cloning the embryos. Move on to an animal which has a higher than average likelihood of conception.
4) Time for the procedure is reduced to a couple of minutes. And embryos can be transported to the site of implementation without the need for neither an operating room nor anesthetics. Therefore, multiple ETs may be done. With surgery a maximum of three implementations could be accomplished without putting the gilts reproductive ability in harms way.
5) No trauma to the recipient animal due to viewing the whole procedure optically.
6) Infusion of antibiotics and other medicines directly to the infected area. Therefore, no intramuscularly injections that result in antibiotics settling in the muscles (meat) that may or may not (depending on the medication used) being present in the meat you eat.
7) Using the correct antibiotic when you have defined the disease (pathogen) present. No hit and miss using broad spectrum antibiotic use which has gained considerable interest as many deceases have mutated numerous times and are now immune to broad spectrum antibiotic use. An example of this would be PRRSv, which has mutated into hundreds of different entities. Hence, the need for a series of new antibiotics being developed which are expensive and in most cases if you know what you are seeing, broad-spectrum use is unnecessary if not very dangerous.
8) Very inexpensive when comparing all of the features above.
Hopefully, this helps and you can use this information to help, as I have to explain to folks the attributes of our system. Not just the GS line, but also how everything fits together and the divisions work to act as a whole. Semen sales, gilts and boars, AI supplies, embryos and of course the TenderPrime line.
Since there are also other numerous great sites I will disseminate this info to all...including the public...great job ...and please keep it up.
Warm regards,
Douglas
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