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British couple pay £60000 for cloned puppies
Remde made two trips in quick succession to South Korea to deliver the cell samples. Rebecca Smith was the victor and her dachshund, Winnie, who is still alive, was successfully cloned.
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They were warned that the procedure has never worked on samples no more than five days. By this time, the dog had been dead for twelve days.
Dylan had already been dead for 12 days when the couple managed to get a viable skin sample to the company.
The process was expensive, with each procedure costing £67,000 or roughly $100,000, according to the Telegraph.co.uk.
The second cloned puppy is expected on 29th December 2015.
Dylan, a boxer, meant everything to Laura Jacques, a dog walker from West Yorkshire, England.
The two cloned puppies will be named Chance (the first one) and Shadow (the second one) after two characters from Jacques’ favorite movie- Homeward Bound. “We do not use the surrogate mother dogs who carry the cloned puppies a few times”. With a dog, you have your best friend, a mate, a child and a guardian all wrapped into one furry package of slobber, poop and love.
Sooam is the only laboratory that clones pets commercially. He stated, “Hopefully it will allow us to extend the time after death that we can take cells for cloning”.
Britain now has no regulations governing the cloning of pets, but the RSPCA has expressed concerns about the practice.
In order to create a dog clone, scientists remove the nucleus and genetic material from a female donor egg, and implant it with the genetic material of the animal they wish to clone. The embryo is then planted into the surrogate; nine weeks later, a cloned litter arrives.
Jacques admitted that the topic of cloning is still a “controversial”, one. While cloning humans in Europe is illegal, there is no law against cloning a pet. But it is illegal to clone a farm animal. The organization is concerned about the welfare of the dogs as well as the ethics involved in cloning canines. There is also a body of evidence that cloned animals frequently suffer physical ailments such as tumors, pneumonia and abnormal growth patterns.
And now they are celebrating after two puppies, who they have named Shadow and Chance, were born to separate surrogate mothers.
The dog that the couple had was a boxer and they had named it Dylan.
The couple had kept their dead dog frozen.
The bereaved owners are still trying to come to terms with their boxer’s death, and are still keeping his corpse in the freezer, until they finish preparing his burying spot. Dylan’s case is of special interest, since his cells were in less-than-pristine condition when the cloning took place. While several hundred cloned dogs have been created over the past decade, these are among the first destined for the United Kingdom.
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Sooam, the leading laboratory in the world for dog cloning, has produced more than 700 dogs for commercial customers, said the Guardian.