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05 August 2005 Scientists successfully clone dog
Scientists in South Korea have for the first time successfully cloned a dog. The dog has been called Snuppy, named after the Seoul National University where the cloning process took place.
The puppy was made from a cell that was taken from the ear of a three-year-old male Afghan hound, and then planted in an empty egg cell.
Once it started developing in to an embryo, it was positioned in the surrogate mother, a Labrador, before being born 60 days later.
Dog cloning has proved very difficult in the past, and even on this occasion, only three pregnancies were achieved from more than 1,000 embryo transfers.
Snuppy was the only survivor of these three, after one miscarried and one died soon after birth.
In 2002, the first cloned cat was made, and there is now a US company that offers pet owners the opportunity to clone their cats for £26,000.
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