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...Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists have followed with pigs, cattle, mice, rabbits, horses and cats. But though they tried mightily, nobody had ever created a genetic double of man's best friend. Not, that is, until South Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University brought Snuppy the puppy into the world--an animal whose entire genome came from a single cell from the ear of a three-year-old Afghan hound. Snuppy's arrival, announced in Nature last week, earned grudging admiration from rival cloners...
...help pet owners. Cloning Snuppy (the name comes from "Seoul National University puppy") took nearly three years and cost millions of dollars. Hwang's ultimate motive, he says, is to create a research model for making stem cells that could cure disease in people. "Compared with rodents," he says, dog cells "are more similar to human stem cells." GS&C still wants to capture the Fido-cloning market, though, and company scientists are trying to reduce the inefficiencies. Even if they manage to clone a dog, says Ben Carlson, a company spokesman, it won't be cheap. "We're charging...
...This lab, at Seoul National University, which made news earlier this summer when they announced a more efficient way of producing human stem cells using a similar cloning process, works seven days a week, for almost 24 hours a day. By keeping a constant vigil for the hormonal signs of ovulation in their female dogs, the scientists were able to surgically remove the eggs at just the right time...
...perhaps not for many years to come. Snuppy, as the Korean researchers named their clone (for Seoul National University puppy), was the only puppy to be born out of 123 cloned cells that were transplanted to surrogate female dogs. It's still an arduous process, and one that's not likely to be very successful without further refinements...
...Located in Gangnam?Seoul's business heart?the 185-room hotel is the work of avant-garde Tokyo design studio SuperPotato. Fashioned from stone, oak and maple?and featuring lots of natural light?its public spaces are minimalist without being austere. A similar approach is used in guest rooms?but the highlight here is undoubtedly the lavish bathroom in each. Occupying one-third of a standard room, each bathroom features walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, looking over the city skyline as well as into the bedroom. As for amenities, there's a rooftop pool and spa (the views...