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Then, last June — six months after Lance’s death — they learned the Northern California biotech firm BioArts International was holding a dog-cloning auction. They threw their hat in the ring, and won.
The cloning didn’t come cheap — the Ottos shelled out $155,000 for the opportunity. But it worked. BioArts partnered with Dr. Hwang S Woo-Suk, of the South Korea biotech research firm Sooam, to bring a second Lancelot into the Otto household.
An egg containing the late Lancelot’s DNA was placed in a Korean dog to create Lancelot Encore. Once the pup was able to leave his birth mother and go out on his own, he was flown from South Korea to San Francisco before finally making his way to Miami International Airport, where the Ottos were pacing with anticipation.
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Ummm. Dr. Woo-Suk is up for scientific fraud for illegally cloning human embryos... Not only did he use some of female lab worker's eggs, the DNA that was "allegedly" put into them could not prove that the DNA used was clone... Typical, one uses a tag or a readily know marker.
So maybe the dog is a clone, but I am sorry but South Korea's QC protocols leave something to be desired... I'd trust the folks in Singapore or Beijing, China and definitely Chiba, Japan or even the Delhi University...
So basically the spent $115K on a dog they could of got for ~$150...