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Cloning, Cancer-Sniffing Dog

by Gloria Gamat on May 23rd, 2008

Last time I read about cancer-sniffing dogs, though a bit skeptic — I knew it wasn’t going to stop there.

Now, a cancer-sniffing-trained dog is going to be cloned in South Korea.

A Japanese center which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul-based biotechnology company and the dog’s owner said Wednesday.

According to Ra Jeong-Chan, president of RNL Bio:

Cloned fetuses from the black labrador retriever named Marine were last month implanted into a surrogate mother dog.

We are going to see the clones around the end of this month.

Well…experts love to say that in science, nothing is impossible. So, let’s wait and see how this line of study on cancer is going to progress.

Read the full report at Discovery News.

[Huge thanks to Alicia for the hat tip!]

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