A biocemist cloning a pet dog

     This article by Bob Grant on February 8, 2008, is about a biochemist cloning a pet dog

     A California lady is paying $150,000 to have her dead pit bull cloned by a South Korean company.  Before the dog, Booger, died, she preserved an ear tissue.  This tissue will be used for the cloning.  She wants to have her dog cloned because Booger saved her life when her arm was torn off by another dog. 

     Another dog was successfully cloned in 2005 by Seoul National University headed by  Lee Byeong-chun.  In 2004, a person paid $50,000 to have a pet cat cloned. 

     I think that it is amazing how advanced the technology has become.  It is also fascinating how you can clone a pet from a simple tissue of material from the animal.  I would have my dog, Dusty, cloned if I had nothing better to do with $150,000.  I can think of 150,000 better things to do with $150,000!