US vet clones beloved pet
22 Nov 2012 5:25 AM IST
A Louisiana veterinarian has cloned his dead 13-year-old pet dog with the help of two South Korean experts. Dr Clark Cooper and his colleagues cloned his pet blue tick hound, Gator, by enlisting the help of two researchers in South Korea.
‘It's the most exciting thing I think we've done as a clinician,’ Cooper was quoted as telling Myarklamiss.com by New York Daily News. ‘He's the same personality, the same bark,’ Cooper of the Cooper Veterinarian Hospital in West Monroe said. ‘It is strange to me to see a 13-year-old dog and then see him started over as a clone puppy,’ he said. After his pooch passed away, Cooper took tissue from Gator's ancestor and then extracted and preserved his DNA. He then sent the samples to two scientists in South Korea.
‘Everybody else is failing at it and these two guys actually made it happen,’ Cooper explained, though he did not identify who the researchers are. Cooper said the cloning was necessary not only to preserve his cherished pooch, but also to continue the family line. ‘He's one of a few in a family line that we can't produce, so we won't be able to have any more if we can't reproduce him,’ Cooper explained. Cooper said that the cloning process can cost over USD 100,000.
‘It's the most exciting thing I think we've done as a clinician,’ Cooper was quoted as telling Myarklamiss.com by New York Daily News. ‘He's the same personality, the same bark,’ Cooper of the Cooper Veterinarian Hospital in West Monroe said. ‘It is strange to me to see a 13-year-old dog and then see him started over as a clone puppy,’ he said. After his pooch passed away, Cooper took tissue from Gator's ancestor and then extracted and preserved his DNA. He then sent the samples to two scientists in South Korea.
‘Everybody else is failing at it and these two guys actually made it happen,’ Cooper explained, though he did not identify who the researchers are. Cooper said the cloning was necessary not only to preserve his cherished pooch, but also to continue the family line. ‘He's one of a few in a family line that we can't produce, so we won't be able to have any more if we can't reproduce him,’ Cooper explained. Cooper said that the cloning process can cost over USD 100,000.
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