In the business of cloning, the cats are scratching the tip
The business related to the cloning of pets as an end in itself revived by the news of the dog clone. “This goes to validate one of the premises of our business,” said Ben Carlson, a spokesman for the company Genetic Savings & Clone (GSC), which is defined as “a gene bank and exceptional pet cloning.”
On the website of the company there are five pictures of cats donors with the respective clone. The company launched its dot org (http://defendpetcloning.org/), to respond directly to another site (http://NoPetCloning.org) that sets out its ideas contrary to the cloning of pets. “Bad news for dogs,” the organization said yesterday that reports the deaths of “thousands of dogs and cats” during investigations.
The company solved GSC studies by scientists at Texas A & M University, who in 2002 cloned a kitten, Carbon Copy. The service costs $ 32,000, according to Los Angeles Times.
In the business of cloning, the cats are scratching the tip
Mark Westhusin, cloning expert at the university, who cloned the first cat, said the reproductive biology of dogs makes cloning is “a nightmare.”
Quoted by The New York Times, Lou Hawthorne, chief of the company Genetic Savings & Clone, said the company spent $ 19 million in the last seven years trying to clone a dog.
The employer said she opened a laboratory in Madison, with 50 employees, and did not get any puppy. Hawthorne estimated to cost more than a million dollars to repeat the experience of South Koreans.
However, the company is with their guard up and keep hundreds of DNA samples from dogs with the idea to start producing clones for customers from next year. To preserve the tissues of dogs, customers pay $ 1,395 to start and then an annual fee of $ 150.

