World's First Animal Cloning Factory

Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, 61, runs Korea's Sooam Biotech, that clones dogs for customers willing to pay $100,000. He led the team that cloned the first dog in 2005, and he’s produced more than 550 cloned puppies since, increasing the efficiency of a complicated process to a point where he can guarantee an exact genetic copy of a client’s dog, provided he has healthy tissue to work with.



This graphic shows how it is done:

Sooam has partnered with BoyaLife, a fast-growing Chinese biotechnology company with 28 subsidiaries and operations in 16 provinces. Rare breeds, dogs cloned for devoted owners, and specialized working dogs (for police and bomb-sniffing work, as well as cancer detection) will be a part of that business but the larger focus will be cloning cows to help China deal with a growing appetite for beef. 

Read more about other implications for research: Businessweek



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