R1.1m for a cloned dog
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Seoul - A South Korean biotech company is offering dog owners the
chance to clone their pet through a service that can cost up to $148
000 (R1.1m) for a puppy.
RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab that produced the
world's first cloned canine, expects to deliver its first cloned dog
in about a year to a US woman in her 50s who saved biological
material from her beloved pit bull that recently died.
"These days, dogs are treated like family members. There are many
owners who would rather clone a favourite pet than adopt a new one
after it dies," said RNL Bio President Ra Jeong-chan.
RNL Bio is affiliated with the team at Seoul National University
(SNU) that produced the world's first cloned dog, which has been
verified through independent testing.
The same SNU lab has been implicated in a scandal for deliberately
fabricating data in separate studies on human embryonic stem cells.
RNL expects it can clone about 30 pet dogs a year at present and
increase that number to about 200 by 2010, with costs going down as
the cloning technology increases in efficiency, Ra said.
Costs will drop
Lee Byeong-chun, the Seoul National University professor who has led
previous canine cloning projects, said of the partnership: "Within
one or two years, we will see costs drop to a reasonable level."
Dogs are considered one of the most difficult mammals to clone
because of their unpredictable reproductive cycle as well as
difficulties in inducing ovulation and fertilising eggs in the lab.
RNL and the university lab have also teamed up to clone drug-sniffing
dogs, seeing-eye dogs and other types of dogs used by governments and
charities at a much cheaper rate than for pet owners, they said.
The Korea Customs Service said it has signed a memorandum of
understanding with the team for cloning drug-sniffing dogs.
The SNU lab was once led by disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is
now standing trial on charges of fraud, embezzlement and violating
the country's bioethics laws.
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