August 03, 2005
Woof, woof, woof, woof
More news from the Korean peninsula, this time from the South. It was reported today that Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University in South Korea cloned the first dog, Snuffy, who is very cute. Apparently cloning a dog was tricky, and it took "123 tries to create two puppies," one of whom died of pneumonia shortly afterwards. What use is a cloned dog (besides, of course, for creating a cloned dog army to send after the dog jedi)? Cloned dogs may yield research developments that may allow dogs to live longer. Once they start living 7 times as long, they will be living longer than their owners, as life-prolonging research on human stem cells falls behind. We may also be able to look forward to an unusual coalition between the religious right and PETA, opposing the research.
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