Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk has returned to the international stage with BioArts International, a California-based biotech startup who next month will give five high bidders the chance to have their dog cloned, reports the New York Times.
More on this when I'm done with my article on photonic crystals and beetle scales. But a word of warning to auction winners: you ever see Meet the Fockers, where Ben Stiller's character buys a cat and spraypaints it to look like the family cat he's lost? Just saying.
Image: Snuppy, cloned by Woo Suk Hwang in 2005, courtesy of Nature.
See Also:
- Glow-in-the-Dark Cats Might Be Public Relations, not Science
- Hwang Woo-Suk: Redemption? More Like Even More Embarrassment
- Only the Cloned Die Young
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