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Meeting your cloned dog for the first time
• TikTok@channelnewsasia For Fu Meijiao and Liu Jingtao, spending S$64,000 on their cloned dog was a way of bringing a family member back to life. Sinogene Biotechnology, the company which did the procedure, claims to clone over 100 pets and store more than 2,000 cell samples annually. "People are becoming more accepting of cloning," said CEO Mi Jidong. But not every experience is a smooth one - some pet owners report abnormal behaviour, anxiety and fear in their cloned pets. Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School, added: "All identical twins are clones....if you've ever known identical twins, you know that they're not the same person because of things that happened to them either before they were born, in utero, or that happened to them afterwards." Would you clone your pet? Watch the four-part series of The Resurrection Quest, a documentary on how scientists, vets and conservationists tap on biotech to bring back dead or extinct animals. Link in comments. #cna #cnainsider #cloning #dogcloning #clone #pets ? original sound - CNA




