The company's first customer is an American whose pit bull dog saved her life. Now she wants to clone him using cells taken from his ear before he died
The Korean company RNL BIO is charging the dog's owner, a resident of California, $150 to clone her pit bull using tissues taken from its balance before it died. The news agencies said that that dog saved her life, so she felt a special affection for him. The work will be carried out by a team from Seoul National University, which cloned its first dog in 2005.
The RNL BIO company states that this will actually be the first time that a dog cloning process will be carried out commercially. "There are many people in Western countries who want to clone their dogs, even at such a high price," said the company's CEO, Ra Jeong-chan to the Korea Times newspaper.
The company expects to receive hundreds more orders for cloning pets in the coming years and plans to breed dogs trained to sniff out bombs or drugs for police units around the world. The company's marketing director, Cho Seong-ryul said that one out of four host mothers manages to get pregnant and have puppies through the fertilization process which is part of the cloning process. According to him, when the process becomes more extensive, it will be possible to lower the price to less than 50 thousand dollars.
The photographed dog has nothing to do with the article, it belongs to the same breed...
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"And she plans to breed dogs trained to sniff out bombs or drugs for police units around the world."
- Isn't that a bit [actually a lot] of Marxism? After all, the "new" dogs need to be trained again anyway. Isn't it better to take standard (and cheap) offspring of these dogs?
Yehuda,
Dolly died of a lung disease common in sheep of her kind. It is of course possible that the short telomeres were related to the disease, but this is a logical leap that has no real evidence.
If I'm not mistaken, other cloned animals besides the Shu-zaburo cow also had longer than normal telomeres. Let's hope this is indeed the case.
Shabbat Shalom,
Roy.
You may be right, Mr. Cezana
http://gifted.cet.ac.il/gifted/forums/mivzak.asp
Quote from there:
"The second generation of cloned cattle were born in the winter of 2000. One calf died of anemia and infection shortly after birth, but Shu-Zaburo survived.
One of the concerns is that the clones will live a shorter life and die of 'old age' at a young age because the cells have a limited number of divisions, and if cells are taken from an older animal, its clone has fewer division options, and therefore a shorter lifespan. Cloning of the clones may provide an answer to the question, but Young says that the young cow shows no signs of the shortening of the chromosomes - a phenomenon that, as mentioned, causes premature aging, similar, perhaps, to the case of Dolly the sheep." End quote.
That is, the situation at the moment is not exactly clear.
I based my response on what I knew about the sheep "Dolly"
So let's have a good and pleasant and quiet weekend.
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Yehuda,
This claim has already been proven wrong. The cells of the clones are actually (paradoxically) younger than those of normal animals.
Unless you found proof somewhere? I would love to read, if you provide a link.
Shabbat Shalom,
Roy.
This dog will never be the same dog you gave her. He will be a different dog. Although the same breed, will look exactly like the dog that died for her, maybe even have the same personality traits, but, it will be a different dog.
Additionally, as far as I know, the clones are actually born old and have a short lifespan, meaning the age of the production cell from which the animal was cloned is preserved and the cloned animal is born at that age.
I have other options for what to do with one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Have a good weekend
Sabdarmish Yehuda