Cloning a beloved pet (dog) is great, but it seems like animal cloning is like any science assisted birth. What do you do about multiples?
Women who take fertility drugs to get pregnant routinely have multiple children…& not just 2 or 3 – but quadruplets, quintuplets & more.
Many times it takes more than one embryo to conceive. So if you only had one “Fido,” do you take all 3 clones if all the eggs were fertilized?
That’s a dilemma facing American Bernann McKinney, who was disabled several years ago when she was attacked by a Mastiff. Her late pitbull Booger, to be the world’s first commercially cloned pet dog, saved McKinney’s life during the attack.
McKinney is excited to see the offspring of Booger. They are scheduled to be born in August in South Korea with the help of Seoul National University researchers.
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