But whether or not they realize it, many thousands of clones have already been produced as the cloning process has become ...

In reproductive cloning, which is how animals are cloned, researchers "remove a mature somatic cell, such as a skin cell, from an animal that they wish to copy." DNA of the donor animal's somatic ...

With the arrival of Little Nicky, a kitten cloned to duplicate a Dallas woman's deceased pet, animal cloning has moved from closed-door laboratories to commercial application. The $50,000 feline ...

Of course, cloning remains controversial—especially in the United States. A 2017 Gallup poll found 63 percent of Americans surveyed considered animal cloning “morally wrong” (a figure that ...

Take, for example, ViaGen, “America’s most trusted animal cloning company.” Although much of ViaGen’s work appears to be in the area of livestock breeding, they also have a dedicated ...

When I inquire about ethics, Hwang is brief. “Animal-cloning ethics and human-cloning ethics have completely different values,” he says. “Here in Sooam we are steadfastly against human ...

What Ever Happened to Cloning? A recent study revealed that sheep created from the same biological matter used to make Dolly, the first cloned mammal, were aging normally and living healthfully ...

Three weeks ago I was set to interview the president of Austin-based pet cloning company ViaGen, which is based in Cedar Park, when I got an email abruptly canceling the interview. The PR contact ...

CC was the first successfully cloned pet, and Texas A&M has gone on to clone more species of animals than any other institution in the world. Dr. Duane Kraemer, a cloning expert and CC’s owner ...

Russell is the president of ViaGen Pets & Equine, a prolific commercial animal cloning facility. The company primarily clones cats, dogs, and horses, though it has also cloned pigs, cows ...

That animal cloning has largely centered around one-off efforts was one of the key factors the study identified as having held cloning technology back as a conservation tool. Limited case studies ...

“Cloning is growing as fast as we can effectively ... cultured and frozen before or just after the animal dies. ViaGen charges $150 annually, on top of an initial $1,600 collection fee, for ...