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he's very happy he really loves his
hobby Kaktovik utility hi mama chigusa
doctor hijo de terre toca Boca Rico good
chunk of cue table this googly-eyed
five-month-old pug is named Mamo tong
and for now she's living amongst dozens
of other newborn puppies but these
aren't your standard run-of-the-mill
puppies they don't know it but Moton and
each of her puppy companions are clones
in evolved amo houghton a mosquito yo no
namaha Kyoto mo Tomas move over dr.
Moten to Kyoto for 16 years mr. Fukuda
was the proud owner of another pug named
Momoko the two were inseparable
today blue oak Tonto Momo Booga dog Fido
to Canada como esta no there so they got
a Momo go to study the littlest when my
mocha recently died mr. foo could have
wanted to bring her back so we turned to
a company called sua to recreate her
currently we've cloned more than six
hundred dogs are various different
breeds and there are no particular
limitations to the different breeds sue
I'm claims it can clone any dog no
matter the age size or breed we recently
visited South Korea to see for ourselves
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first for you to even consider getting
your dog cloned you need $100,000 also
the dog you wanna clone has to be either
alive or dead for fewer than five days
if you want to clone your dead dog you
have to first wrap its entire body with
wet towels and then keep it cool by
placing it in the refrigerator you can't
freeze it all of this may seem a bit odd
but sua needs live skin cells in order
to clone your dog this process prevents
the skin on your dead dog from drying
out or freezing and it gives you on the
highest chance of finding preserved skin
cells
next you need to take your dog to the
vet and get a biopsy sample using a tool
called a biopsy punch your veterinarian
will cut out an 8 millimeter wide sample
of flesh from the abdominal area of the
dog if your dog is alive just one sample
is enough but if your dog is dead you'll
need to provide soo-ah with as many
samples as possible to increase the
chances of finding live skin cells you
then pack the sample with ice packs in a
styrofoam box to keep it chilled and
expedited to Suwon which you can do so
using normal shipping services like
FedEx and once the sample has passed
through Korean customs which can take an
additional two to three days suom can
finally get to work on cloning your dog
first the sample is sterilized and cut
into smaller pieces then it's treated
with a reagent and chemically
dissociated meaning the cells are
separated from the tissue the sample is
then placed in a centrifuge which allows
the scientists to collect the cells and
transfer them into a growth medium one
to two weeks later soem has the cells
necessary for the cloning process
suom then goes to a laboratory animal
provider where they read two dogs an egg
donor and a surrogate mother starting
with the egg donor doctors take the dog
into an operating room where they sedate
her place her on the operating table
slice her open pull out her ovaries
and collect her eggs
we have six from left ovary and fix the
problem right away once the eggs are
collected a scientist places them under
a microscope and uses a pipette to
extract the nucleus if you see the shiny
part this is where the chanting material
is suam is removing the DNA from the
eggs as you can see we can verify that
all the genetic material has been taken
out and by removing the DNA so um is
creating genetically empty eggs meaning
the breed of the egg donor dog won't
matter since none of its DNA will be
passed on to the cloned puppy from here
assume scientists injects the cells
taken from the biopsy sample of the
original dog into the empty eggs under
normal circumstances sperm is a
necessary component for reproduction but
in this cloning process sperm is
replaced by two things the cell from the
original dog and a series of short
electrical shocks from a machine called
the electro cell manipulator the
electrical currents from this machine
activate and fuse together the membranes
of the egg and cell creating a
fertilized embryo after just one minute
suyama has a whole batch of cloned dog
embryos to work with next
soo-ah moves on to the second rental dog
the surrogate mother back in the
operating room the doctors sedate the
surrogate place around the operating
table slicer open
pull out her ovaries and uterus and
inject up to 15 cloned embryos into her
uterus 30 days later suom is able to
verify the surrogates pregnancy which
they say has about a 40 percent success
rate if the procedure fails they'll
examine what went wrong and repeat the
process using a different surrogate
mother when a successful pregnancy is
confirmed it takes another 30 days for
the surrogate mother to give birth
during this time soo-ah will closely
monitor the surrogate and check on the
condition of her fetus when the cloned
puppy is finally born so um we'll take
care of the clone until the customer is
able to bring their new pet home the
facilities at swamp can house up to 50
dogs at a time customers can either make
the trip to Seoul to pick up their
cloned pup or arrange to have a swamp
employee deliver their new pet directly
to them they'll have to wait the
recording period though which varies
from country to country now with the
high cost of the procedure and invasive
surgeries performed on the rental dogs
it's easy to see why dog cloning is
controversial
but for mr. Fukuda homo there is no
hesitation in his decision to bring back
his dog
Puccini toda so no diamond or dead
Conoco no mo katana zeona yo stay Momoko
dona zeona [ __ ] stay Momoko tone
adriana cavarero DiMaggio Nakamoto Anton
de mando [ __ ] satellite of Aquaman a
couple of course while the cloned puppy
might look exactly like the original dog
its personality will be shaped by the
environment it's raised it in other
words a cloned puppy might not behave
like the original dog Momo ba ba in any
case there is now an alternative to life
without your beloved dog just not a
cheap or ethically uncomplicated