Snuppy has two new girlfriends

Although there was no leader, the two members of the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk's group continued to make a new breakthrough in the field of dog cloning - They just cloned successfully. " "New bitch named" Bona "and" Peace ".

The two researchers of the Hwang group led by Prof. Kim Dae-yong and his partner, GS.Lee Byeong-chun, implanted the embryo into 12 mother dogs and as a result, there were three pregnant dogs.

Bona cloned bitch was born on June 18 and Peace was born on July 10, both were born due to surgery on the uterus. The remaining cloned dog will be born later this week.

Snuppy's girlfriend - the "she" Bona clone .
(Photo of Korea Times)

Both these new cloned dogs and one about to give birth are cloned from the hunting dog's dog Afganistan like a Snuppy dog.

GS. Kim said "this time we have cloned effectively" . Last year, to create the dog Snuppy the team had to use 123 bitches and as a result only three pregnancies and only two successful births. However, a cloned dog died of pneumonia.

Prof. Kim's plan will give these two new female bitches a mate with Snuppy at the end of the year. These experiments focus on the asexual reproduction of dogs.

Professor Hwang Woo-suk hugged them to Snuppy (photo: tri-cityherald.com) Professor Kim explained that "Dogs live with human life so they have many common characteristics of human illness. We will studying different human diseases if we can create a model from dog cloning ".

Hwang was a master of dog cloning, but he had to leave his research after he was found to be faking the study of human embryonic stem cells earlier this year. Even so, Snuppy is claimed to be the world's first cloned dog by many research institutes around the globe.

Since Snuppy was published in the famous British Nature magazine in August last year, there has been no research team outside of Hwang's research team that has succeeded in the field of dog cloning.

Professor Kim said "the Bona inspection has been appointed but Peace is still too young to check. We are currently writing an article about them".

It is known that Prof. Kim Min-kyu - the head of this research group played a pivotal role in the process of duplicating Snuppy. At the same time, GS. Lee Byeong-chun is also Hwang's right-hand man.

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