Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog. For $50,000, You Can Clone Yours.
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Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog. For $50,000, You Can Clone Yours.
Specifically, the magazine reported that the dogs — Miss Violet
and Miss Scarlett — had been cloned from cells taken from the mouth and stomach of Ms. Streisand’s late dog Samantha, who was 14 when she died last year.
Researchers at the South Korean lab told the station
that the dogs it had cloned have been healthy — and had almost always looked and acted like the dogs they were cloned from
Two 2015 reports — from Business Insider and NPR — detail the work of Sooam Biotech, a lab in South Korea,
and said the lab, on its own, had cloned more than 600 dogs.
In her interview with Variety, Ms. Streisand revealed that two of her three Coton de Tulear dogs were clones.
Specifically, the magazine reported that the dogs — Miss Violet
and Miss Scarlett — had been cloned from cells taken from the mouth and stomach of Ms. Streisand’s late dog Samantha, who was 14 when she died last year.
Researchers at the South Korean lab told the station
that the dogs it had cloned have been healthy — and had almost always looked and acted like the dogs they were cloned from
Two 2015 reports — from Business Insider and NPR — detail the work of Sooam Biotech, a lab in South Korea,
and said the lab, on its own, had cloned more than 600 dogs.
In her interview with Variety, Ms. Streisand revealed that two of her three Coton de Tulear dogs were clones.