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...also raised two big questions. The first, from many a dog owner: When can I clone my dog? The second: What are they going to clone next? The answer to the first is not very soon. The Korean achievement proves that cloning a dog is possible, not that it's easy. Indeed, billionaire John Sperling, who co-founded the cleverly named Genetic Savings & Clone (GS&C), of Sausalito, Calif., has spent seven years and more than $19 million trying in vain to clone a dog. Texas A&M researcher Mark Westhusin, whose team cloned a cat on its second...
With so many animals already cloned - sheep, cows, mice, cats - what is so important about the successful cloning of a dog announced Thursday in Korea...
...important step because a dog's reproductive system is slightly different from that of other mammals. The eggs of dogs, which are needed to grow the resulting clone (in this case, a cell from the ear of an adult Afghan hound was the genesis of the cloned puppy) do not mature in the ovary, but instead finish their development in the oviduct. It's much easier for scientists to obtain eggs from the ovary than from the oviduct. Many researchers have tried, but failed to get the timing right to get the most mature eggs...
...Will I be able to clone my pet dog...
...lamp-posts in towns and cities. One found recently outside a mosque in Pattani's Yarang district excoriates the NRC and "Siamese infidels" who corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker in Yala. "Nobody wants to be caught with one in their house or at a checkpoint." The militants threaten death to anyone who destroys their leaflets...