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A dog lies unconscious on the operating table, as Woosuk Hwang gently lifts the puppy from its womb. While I watch, one of his researchers, David Kim, tells me about the original – the source of this puppy's DNA.
He calls it the original, because the nearly born puppy is a clone.
Hwang snips open the amniotic sac and the little fur ball slips out into the world. It's black, wet – and motionless. An assistant wraps it in a towel, massages it gently – and it starts to yelp. Success!
This puppy is a sign of things to come for Hwang and his lab. For the past few years, the lab has worked on cloning domestic dogs. Now the researchers plan move on to saving their wild relatives. They want to rescue some of the world's most endangered canids, including the Ethiopian wolf and the dhole, or Asiatic wild dog.
This has raised concerns among conservationists, not least because they fear cloning will be little more than a shiny distraction from wider efforts to preserve habitats and biodiversity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @04:51PM
Hwang snips open the amniotic sac and the little fur ball slips out into the world. It's black, wet – and motionless. An assistant wraps it in a towel, massages it gently – and it starts to yelp. Success! Hwang then proceeds to season and prep the mother for roasting. The newborn pup is promptly stunned and tossed into a boiling pot. "This will be a most wonderful feast...A feast of success!" Hwang joyously announces. He then proceeds to explain how much Koreans love to eat dogs. "We now have a solution for our brothers to the north, who like us, love eating dog. But they have little or no dog meat. A single one of my dog cloning facilities can feed an entire NK gulag." Hwang explains. There is little doubt in my mind that as much as the Korean has advanced, they are still very much backwards with respect to their lust for eating doge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:10PM
Now SJWs tell foreigners what to eat. Next thing they will dictate how farts must smell.