S. Korea Scientists Say They’ve Cloned First Female Dogs
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SEOUL, South Korea — Seoul National University, South Korea’s top national university, said it succeeded in cloning the world’s first female dogs.
Three female Afghan hounds are healthy after one was born in June and the other two in July, said Lee Byeong Chun, professor at the university’s college of veterinary medicine at a press conference in Seoul yesterday. Veterinary publication Theriogenology accepted Mr. Lee’s paper, “Birth of viable female dogs produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer” and is reviewing it, Mr. Lee said. The journal published the paper on its Web site on December 14.
“This has reaffirmed that South Korea is at the forefront of animal cloning, especially dog-cloning,” Mr. Lee, who led the research, said.
