Post by dad2paisley on Nov 13, 2005 19:01:59 GMT -5
Snuppy, the first cloned dog, is the most amazing invention of 2005, Time magazine said on Sunday. The puppy, a 5-month-old Afghan hound, was cloned at Seoul National University in Korea by a 45-person team led by Professor Woo Suk Hwang. Snuppy's genes are derived from a single cell taken from the ear of an adult Afghan, rather than the egg and sperm of a mother and father, Time said. The technique used to create Snuppy, somatic nuclear cell transfer, was the same technique British researchers used to create Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal.
