Snuppy, the first cloned dog, is Time magazine's pick for the most amazing invention of 2005. The puppy, a 5-month-old Afghan hound, was cloned at Seoul National University in Korea by a 45-person team led by Professor Woo Suk Hwang. Snuppy was created through somatic nuclear cell transer using a single cell taken from the ear of an adult Afghan. If you're going to clone a dog, why in the world would you pick an Afghan? They aren't particularly attractive dogs, and they shed like crazy. I don't get it.
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Think about it, there'll be hair all over the petrie dishes and test tubes. Just a mess.
Why did they clone a cat in the first place? Not enough attitude from the first one?
Long haired dogs are the spawn of Electrolux and a sadist - the hair gets wound around the beater brush (he said beater brush) and jams the workings...
Why clone dogs and cats at all? It's not like there's a shortage of them. I mean, hasn't Bob Barker been trying for YEARS to get us to spay and neuter them? Is he going to have to add "and don't clone them" to the list?
Shouldn't they be cloning endangered animals? I'm just sayin'.
Jen's got a point there. Cloning endangered animals would be a better choice.
I hope Snuppy is healthy. My daughter did a report last year on cloning, and she found out that most cloned animals are sick. They develop cancers and other illnesses and usually don't survive very long.
Hey...It could have been worse. TRIVIA: You ever wonder why there were such "HUGE" dinosaurs, tyrannosaurs Rexes, woolly mammals, etc? It was due to cloning.. The only genetic flaw that they over-looked, was their insatiable appetite for every last bit of food left in the World...
Well, this went on and on, until finally a meteorite "cut down their appetite." ;-) (Oh, and by the way, I agree, why Afghans!
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I guess they picked an Afghan because it's such a distinct-looking dog. You know how those Koreans love to build multi-purpose gadgets...maybe they like the Afghans because they can be a pet AND they can be used to keep your feet warm.
well, if you were going to clone something that made people look, perhaps an ugly dog is the way to go... but then i think i would have picked a pug, they should win the ugly award, and they shed less! but i think they smell worse!
They use lesser mammals as practice for the inevitable human clone. I just don't understand why
they picked an afghan, except perhaps the Koreans eat all the pretty, short-haired dogs & all that's left is an afghan.
Everyone is overlooking the obvious connection to the Taliban. Hello? Afghan.
Obviously the Koreans are in cahoots with the Taliban to clone an evil army of shaggy dogs. Instead of smart bombs, it'll be clumps of shedded hair. Think of how easy it will be to infiltrate U.S. army bases after they send in these incredibly hairy dogs and all the soldiers are forced to brush them 24/7 so they won't get matted.
Come on now. That was too easy.
Jessey, your middle name is vivid imagination, isn't it?
I like some of the other Amazing Inventions in Time's article... none of which are as controversial as cloning!
I just like to see the big conspiracy in everything...it's fun!
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