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...That pack is part of a fledging industry that South Korea is leading: the cloning - and sale - of pet dogs. Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 by Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, scientists around the world have cloned everything from cats, monkeys and fruit flies to horses, rabbits, cows and wolves - mostly for non-commercial uses. Dogs are notoriously complex to clone, and Korea is the only country where researchers have successfully done the deed. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...
...when researchers first reported transferring a tadpole nucleus into an ovum and producing identical tadpole copies. In 1995, biologist Craig Venter sequenced the genome of the Haemophilus influenzae bacterium, the first living organism whose genes were decoded. In 1997, cloning made stop-the-presses headlines when embryologist Ian Wilmut announced that he had cloned a sheep. Venter grabbed the spotlight again in 2003 when his team became one of two to sequence the human genome. A living woolly mammoth either will or won't ensue, but if cloning history is any guide, don't bet against will...
...While some researchers, including British scientist and cloning pioneer Ian Wilmut, have suggested they would focus exclusively on reprogramming, HSCI Executive Director Brock Reeve said the institute would “continue to do work on multiple fronts...
...don’t know enough yet to make an Ian Wilmut-like statement,” he said...
...Already, the process, called direct reprogramming, is changing the field - on several levels. Ian Wilmut, the pioneering biologist responsible for cloning the first mammal, Dolly, has announced that he will no longer use the cloning method that made him famous to generate stem cells. "Changing cells from a patient directly into stem cells has got so much more potential," he says...