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Re: S Korean dog cloning firm gets 1st order
S Korean dog cloning firm gets 1st order for pitbull that saved woman's life
15/02/2008 5:06:00 AM--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean firm is offering to clone pet dogs in cooperation with the scientists who created the world's first cloned canine.Jae-Soon Chang, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seoul-based RNL Bio says it is already working on its first order from an American woman who wants a clone of her dead pit bull. She was especially attached to it because it saved her life when another dog attacked her and bit off her arm.The client, Bernann McKunney of California, provided the firm with ear tissue from the dead dog, which she had taken and preserved at a U.S. biotech firm before the dog died.
A company spokeswoman says the chances of successfully creating a clone are about 25 per cent.
The firm is charging US$150,000 for the clones, which clients pay only after they receive a new pet.
Cloning work will be done by a team of Seoul National University scientists led by professor Lee Byeong-chun, a key member of disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk's research team, spokeswoman Kim Yoon said. The company will handle marketing.
Most of Hwang's purported breakthroughs in cloning human stem cells were found to be fake. But the team was found to have successfully created the world's first dog clone, an Afghan hound named "Snuppy."
Lee was the main scientist leading the dog cloning. He later cloned more dogs and succeeded in cloning a wolf. Kim said no other scientists elsewhere had succeeded in creating cloned dogs, and that her company is offering the world's first commercial dog cloning service.
Lee confirmed the university's animal cloning clinic would work on the project, but did not elaborate.
RNL Bio plans to eventually focus on cloning not only pets, but also special dogs like those trained to sniff out bombs. Established in 2000, the company produces animal disinfectants and health supplements, while also conducting stem cell research.
- Mikkamakka
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People will realize that although genes are very important, they'll never get the same pet or human being they miss, because not only genes but life forms who and what we are.
Re: S Korean dog cloning firm gets 1st order
People will realize that although genes are very important, they'll never get the same pet or human being they miss, because not only genes but life forms who and what we are.
That's a good point. It would be very cool to observe which traits are different in the end though, so we can see exactly what is caused by nature and what is caused by nurture.
- DoubleTalkingJive
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To me it'd be like Pet Semetary. 
You'd get a dog that looks just like yours but you have no idea how it's gonna act.
- Communist China
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I don't know Mikka, I think genetics are a much bigger decider in self than experiences are. I used to think that environment had as much or more to do with a life as biological info did, but then I took an Anthro class and read a lot of research that supported the contrary.
I want to cure aging. If cloning technology can help with that, then I'm all for it.
Re: S Korean dog cloning firm gets 1st order
I want to cure aging.
I'm not so sure, that would be a good thing.
...As for this subject, I think this isn't such a good idea, too me if that happened to my Cat, that would be too trying mentally, trying to forget that what you're looking at isn't the real thing, but it isn't an illusion.
- the_real_jessica
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It's time to start cloning people already. Until they clone people, I don't believe cloning technology exists.
Usually, by the time scientific news reach the people, the people are 50 to 150 years behind the real scientific progresses.
People are probably cloned already.
- the_real_jessica
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One question to you all :
As time passes by, there are more and more people on the planet and less work for all.
If we lived forever, how would you manage to fit everyone on the globe, give work to enough so we don't end up in blood to eat ?
Socio- economically speaking, what would you do ?
Cloning morality aside, cloning irregularities aside, mental health of cloned aside, how would the world cope ?
