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UAE advancing camel breeding research and technology   By   JPOST.COM STAFF     09/30/2010 With camels fetching million dollar price tags, research centers making breeding, cloning advances with prize camels. The United Arab Emirates has risen to the vanguard of camel breeding technology, AFP reported on Thursday. According to the report, embryo transfers and cloning techniques normally seen in the world of horse breeding are being advanced at the world's most advanced camel research centers, located in the   UAE . The Veterinary Research Center in   Abu Dhabi , the only commercial center to perform embryo transfers on camels, employs four veterinarians, eight technicians, and is home to 1,500 camels, according to the AFP report. Another advanced camel research center, the Camel Reproduction Center in   Dubai , is only for research purposes and is home to 150 camels, AFP reported. The Dubai research center participated in the world's firs...