The cloned Boxer
Media: a family from Britain bowed the deceased dog for 67 thousand pounds
A married couple from Yorkshire on Saturday will become the first owners of cloned puppies in the UK, grown on the basis of genetic material extracted from the body of their deceased dog 12 days after his death, the Telegraph newspaper website reports (Couple become first in Britain to have dead dog cloned to create puppies).
Lara Jacques and her husband Richard Remde lived for nine years in the company of a boxer dog named Dylan, who died this summer as a result of the appearance of an incurable brain tumor and a related heart attack.
The couple decided to seek help from the well-known South Korean Biotech Research Foundation Sooam, which has been engaged in commercial cloning of animals for almost 10 years. During this time, the company's specialists have raised over 700 cloned dogs and dozens of other animals.
One of the first clients of this firm was a Canadian policeman James Symington, whose deceased dog was awarded cloning in 2009 due to the fact that she played a key role in finding people under the ruins of the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The main difference between the "copies" of Dylan from all other pets cloned in Sooam for residents of Britain is that the genetic material for their cultivation was collected not immediately after the death of the boxer, but 12 days after the heart attack and the death of the dog.
Scientists warned Jacques and Remde that success in this case is far from guaranteed, but a miracle happened and Korean geneticists managed to grow full-fledged embryos and implant them in the womb of a surrogate mother. As geneticists expect, "copies" of Dylan will be born on Boxing Day, December 26, that is, this Saturday.
This procedure cost the couple 67 thousand pounds, which is slightly more expensive than Sooam cloning services usually cost. This is due to the poor preservation of the material and the fact that scientists had to extract genetic material from dog cells several times.
Dylan's body, as Jacques and Remde told the Telegraph newspaper, is still in the freezer, as the couple plans to bury him in their garden after they choose a place and build a "tomb" for their pet.
PS from the editors: a few days later, hundreds of publications delighted their readers: despite all the difficulties, at the end of December, as many as two copies of the unforgettable deceased were born (the first on the 26th, the second on the 29th).And 12 days in the freezer are nothing compared to the fact that back in 2008, Japanese scientists obtained clones from mouse cells that had lain at – 20 o C for as long as 16 years. Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru
24.12.2015