Tag: CLONING

While Kim Jong-il continues to lead North Korea like a hyperactive preschooler whose parents can't find his Ritalin, South Korea is knocking off designer handbags, churning out electronics like nobody's business, and now, according to USA Today, using cloned, drug-sniffing dogs to patrol its airports. Unlike the U.S. (where German Shepherds get to sniff all the drugs), South Korea has put six ...

Former Nova Scotian police officer James Symington (pictured) had quite the attachment to his German shepherd, Trakr. Not only was Trakr man's best friend, but he was also instrumental in the search and rescue effort following 9/11. The dog, according to CBS, found the last survivor in the rubble of the World Trade Center. So, when Symington heard of California company BioArts's contest to clone ...

Remember that dog-cloning auction we talked about a while back? Well, it's all come to an end, with a Florida couple winning one of the six auctions and paying $155,000 to clone their much-loved Labrador Retriever, Sir Lancelot. The 10-week-old cloned puppy -- named Lancey -- was hand-delivered to the couple, and the results appear to be successful. "One minute with Lancey and you know he's ...

Is Fido on his last legs? Well, he may have a second chance, in a manner of speaking, as long as you're sure to collect a DNA sample. BioArts International, a San Francisco-based firm, has announced it will auction off five slots for people who want clones produced of their dogs – plus one more slot for a lucky contest winner. Despite the lessons we all learned from Stephen King's 'Pet ...

They claim there is a scientific purpose for their experiments, but to be honest with you, we can't quite figure out what that purpose may be. The South Korean scientists who created this pair of fluorescent felines claim that this breakthrough will help them study diseases and stem cells. We might not be biologists, but we're not really sure what the connection between AIDS and a cat that ...