A Korean company called RNL Bio has successfully cloned Booger, the pet dog, for an American woman, Bernann McKinney, pictured here. This marks the first instance of a commercially cloned pet. In 2005 the team first cloned a canine and has since cloned roughly 20 animals each verified as genuinly cloned. The lead guy at RNL Bio is a former colleague of Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean scientist who falsely reported cloned human stem cells in 2005 which seems a bit sketchy, but apparently the dog stuff is legit. RNL Bio is going to charge up to $150,000 to clone each dog and expects to do roughly 300 a year.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Korean scientists clone pets (read: renewable food supply)
A Korean company called RNL Bio has successfully cloned Booger, the pet dog, for an American woman, Bernann McKinney, pictured here. This marks the first instance of a commercially cloned pet. In 2005 the team first cloned a canine and has since cloned roughly 20 animals each verified as genuinly cloned. The lead guy at RNL Bio is a former colleague of Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean scientist who falsely reported cloned human stem cells in 2005 which seems a bit sketchy, but apparently the dog stuff is legit. RNL Bio is going to charge up to $150,000 to clone each dog and expects to do roughly 300 a year.
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*racist joke about Korean culinary habits as it relates to the article*
The article in the Herald-Leader this morning said the woman paid $50,000 but didn't say whether that was per canem or total. Does the $150,000 figure mean that they're jacking up the price now that they succeeded commercially?
BTW, that picture of the woman disgusts me. I can't believe anyone would shell out that kind of money for a clone when tons of animals in shelters need homes. This isn't even a rare breed, either; it's just a mix of Korean breeds. Regardless, no dog is worth that.
americans-the hell did you expect?
"RNL Bio charges up to $150,000 for dog cloning but will receive just a third of that sum from McKinney because she is the first customer and helped with publicity, said company head Ra Jeong-chan."
I agree with Jay, given the pet overpopulation crisis this is stupid.
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