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| From what the scientists said on Good Morning America, they cloned the dog to further research towards producing cloned stem cells for medical research. Apaprently Korea is on the front edge of cloning research. If we're gonna clone- can't we clone something endangered?! Like cloning a cheetah, or a california condor? Sigh...
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| The big thing about cloning dogs is that unlike other mammals, they ovulate immature embryos. So they have to harvest the eggs differently (apparently not harming the dogs!) and then use a different technique to impant the skin cells and start the cell division. They have tried to do a dog because they are one of the hardest animals to clone; at a cellular level.
I think I got all that right, it's been a few years since that Animal Bio class! The biggest problem with this and much of the scientific community is trying to head it off as quickly as possible, is that people are already trying to put in orders with private companies for clones of their favorite pets. There is a California company. Genetic Savings and Clone, that will clone cats for people and they are already starting to talk about taking orders for dogs. (The cost to clone your cat is $32,000, by the way!) The one thing that can be said is that it is very hard to clone dogs so hopefully this won't become a boutique procedure! |
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