Give my dead dog a clone...
12 April 2012
A South Korean company is offering to clone pet dogs.
RNL Bio, in Seoul, said its first order was from Ms Bernann McKunney of California who wanted her dead pitbull replicated.
It will cost £76,400 and has a one in four chance of success. Ms McKunney supplied the firm with ear tissue from the dead dog.
She said her pet had once saved her life when another dog bit off her arm.
Ms McKunney provided the firm with ear tissue from the dead dog, which she had taken and preserved at a U.S. biotech firm before the dog died a year and a half ago.
The chances of successfully creating a clone are about 25 percent, a spokeman for the company said.
