Snuppy , the world ’s first cloned dog , died in 2015 , but his genetic bequest go on . AstheNational Postreports , South Korean scientists recentlydescribedin the journalScientific Reportsthe giving birth of three dead ringer puppies , all of which are identical replicas of the famous Afghan hound .
Ultimately , researcher end up using corporeal cellular telephone nuclear transport ( SCNT ) to clone a dog , the same method acting that was used to make Dolly . In the early 2000s , a team of South Korean scientists inserted desoxyribonucleic acid harvested from an Afghan dog ’s skin cellular telephone into a pawl egg from which the DNA had been removed . The egg divided , which produced multiple cloned fertilized egg .
The scientists implanted 1095 of these embryos in 123 heel , an exhaustive initiative that yield just three pregnancies , allot to NPR . Of these , Snuppy — whose name is a combination of " puppy " and Seoul National University ’s initials — was the only survivor .
Snuppy died from cancer in April 2015 , just shortly after his tenth birthday . To celebrate his successful life , the same South Korean researchers decided to re - clone him using mesenchymal stem cells from the blackguard ’s abdomen fat , which were taken when he was five . This time around , they transfer 94 reconstructed embryos to seven dogs . Four dead ringer were later behave , although one terminate up dying shortly after birth .
The tiny Snuppy ringer are now more than a yr old , and researchers say that they do n’t think that the pup present the risk of accelerated ripening , nor are they more disease - prone than other dog . ( Dolly break down when she was just six age sometime , while cloned mice have also experience poor lifetime . ) Snuppy ’s somatic cell donor , Tai , lived just two year longer than Snuppy , die at age 12 , the average lifespan of an Afghan hound .
research worker say that this fresh generation of Snuppys will yield novel perceptivity into the health and length of service of cloned brute . Meanwhile , in other fauna cloning news , a Texas - based companycalled ViaGen Petsis now extend to clone citizenry ’s beloved pet , according to CBS Pittsburgh — a service that costs a cool $ 50,000 for dogs .
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