Re-cloning of first cloned dog deemed successful thus far

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https://phys.org/news/2017-11-re-cloning-cloned-dog-deemed-successful.html
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Seoul National University, Michigan State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has re-cloned the first dog to be cloned. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes duplicating the clone and offers an update on how the dogs are doing.

Back in 2005, researchers at Seoul National University reported that they had cloned an Afghan hound, the first dog to be cloned. Since that time, hundreds of other dogs have been cloned, as well, offering an opportunity to learn more about the potential benefits and possible drawbacks of cloning animals for. Now, in another first, the researchers with this new effort report having cloned the clone they cloned.

The story started with Tai, a normal Afghan hound. The team cloned him by inserting his cells into the eggs of a female donor after removing the original nucleus and then implanting them in the female's uterus. By all accounts, he lived a normal dog life on the campus of Seoul National University, which gave his name: Snuppy. At the age of five, researchers there collected stem cells from Snuppy and used them to inseminate other females. In all, 94 embryos were implanted, which led to four successful pregnancies and births. Shortly thereafter, one of the puppies died, leaving three clones of the cloned dog Snuppy. The researchers wrote a paper describing their results, noting that the dogs, which were nine months old at the time, seemed to be healthy and normal. They have only now published that paper.

I knew Sineya was messed up. I didn't know it's this messed up.😱
 
I don't know how to feel about this. I wish we would stop and have a dialogue about the potential long term consequences as a global community. Also to ask where we are going, or where we intend to go, with this line of research. Doing so would help anticipate later problems, problems we might not be capable of now but problems we might still be able to anticipate and prepare for like responsible people and researchers.

But does anyone stop to ask these kinds of things? Would our scientists even care? I'm not sure. And I mean a global community conversation, not just scientists isolated from the community at symposiums and research lectures. They are making decisions that effect all of us, so all of us should have a chance to participate in such a discussion.
 
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Spot ON!
To answer your question boss, speaking of things fading, the Afghan hounds do seem smaller.
 
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