February 01, 2009

First Commercially Cloned Dog in US


Ed and Nina Otto couldn't deal with the cancer death of their dog Sir Lancelot Encore in January, 2008. So what did the couple do? So the Otto's paid $155,000 to have the dog cloned by South Korean company BioArts International.

"He's back with me," said Nina, "in terms of the essence of him, as much as you could probably expect to ever get back someone who died."
This is Sir Lancelot, as he was, when he was nice and healthy," said Nina Otto, "probably around the time that we actually took his DNA and froze it."

"I know that to a lot of people spending that much money is ridiculous. I've heard some of my friends say 'On a dog?', but it wasn't just a dog. It was Lancelot."

Via GEEKOLOGIE

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