Dogs cloned to sniff out cancer
Updated 06.44 Tue Jun 17 2008
Keywords:
labrador,
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cancer
Four Labrador retriever puppies have been cloned from a Japanese dog to sniff out patients with cancer.
They were engineered by a South Korean biotechnology company RNL Bio who said: "The puppies are destined for great things."
If this cloning project is successful other dogs can be trained for special purposes
According to Lee Byeong-Chun a Seoul National University professor, the cloned puppies have the same characteristics as their mother Marine.
The puppies were born three weeks ago and will be sent to Japan in September for training.
If this cloning experiment project is successful other dogs can be trained for special purposes like detecting those in floods and to find explosives.
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