Lou Hawthorne of Mill Valley-based BioArts International plays with his... (IJ photo/Frankie Frost)
Pictured here is Mira who is actually a quadruplet? There were 4 clones made from one (Missy), and Mira is one of those 4 puppies cloned. The other three are reportedly living in the US and doing well. All four have had their DNA examined by UC Davis genetics lab and are identical.
These 4 puppies, raised in different environments are offering scientists a chance to evaluate the age old argument of Nature vs Nature on the development of temperament.
The company is also beginning additional cloning projects.
BioArts, which raised more than $700,000 in an online dog-cloning auction earlier this year, is Hawthorne’s second commercial cloning venture. His Genetic Savings and Clone of Sausalito, which offered to clone customers’ pet cats, closed in 2006.
In the past month, the firm cloned three dogs. Hawthorne declined to identify the customers, but he said they included clients from the company’s auction – and possibly Trakr, the German shepherd search-and-rescue dog that found the last human survivor of 9/11 among the World Trade Center rubble. Trakr’s owner has accepted BioArts’ offer to clone the dog.
Hawthorne would only say of the auction clients that they were all couples or families wishing to clone their pets; four of them live in the United States, and cloning fees ranged from $130,000 to $170,000.
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