Canine cloning success in South Korea
A company based in Seoul, South Korea has revealed that it expects the cloning of domestic pets to become less expensive in future due to a brand new technique which they have developed.
The company, RNL Bio has confirmed that it has effectively cloned two pups from a beagle by utilising stem cells from the fat tissue of the dog.
A spokesperson for the company revealed that this new method of cloning had improved success rates by as much as 50%.
In 2008 RNL Bio are believed to have produced the very first commercially cloned canine - a Pit Bull Terrier for a US resident.
It is also understood that more recently a Florida couple purchased a puppy cloned from their dead pet for $155,000 from a company in South Korea.
Traditionally scientists have used skin cells from canine donors to obtain DNA which is then fuses with an egg to produce a clone.
But scientists at RNL Bio retrieved DNA from fat tissue and went on to develop 84 embryos.
These were transplanted into five separate surrogate bitches, one of whom has given birth to two puppies, confirming a 20% success rate in the new technique.
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