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World's first commercially cloned dog delivered to family

Bioarts International announced that they have delivered the world's first commercially cloned dog, the 10-week old Labrador named Lancey shown above, to Florida residents Edgar and Nina Otto. Lancey's genetic donor, Sir Lancelot, died in January of 2008, and the Ottos had his DNA stored. By October, samples from the original dog were on their way to Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea, which provides cloning services to BioArts and Lancy was born on November 18th, 2008, and brought to the Ottos on January 26th, 2009 after being weaned from his surrogate mother. The dog was cloned under a license of the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning patents developed at the Roslin Institute for the cloning of Dolly the sheep ... more