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Reproductive ability of a cloned dog a success as first cloned dog fathers puppies
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080904100150.l7oz0qpv&show_article=1
Snuppy, the first cloned dog, has become a father after the world's first successful breeding involving only cloned canines, South Korean researchers said Thursday.
The Afghan hound impregnated two cloned bitches of the same breed through artificial insemination, a Seoul National University (SNU) research team said in a statement.
"This is the first time in the world that puppies have been born from cloned parents," team leader Lee Byung-Chun told AFP.
One of the 10 puppies which were born between May 14 and 18 died but nine others are healthy, he said.
"This shows the reproductive ability of a cloned dog," Lee said.
Lee's team, which says it also produced the world's first cloned wolves, plans to carry out a similar breeding experiment with them.
The breeding of cloned dogs "opens the way for cloning sniffer dogs and seeing-eye guide dogs, which usually have to be sterilised for training and lose the ability to reproduce," Lee said.
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