Tuesday, March 27, 2007

S. Korean team claims first cloned wolves:

Wow, after I read this article, I was shocked. I still believe that cloning should be banned everywhere, even though some types of cloning are beneficial, like therapeutic cloning. But full body cloning is absolutely wrong in my perspective. As this article stated, some South Korean scientists cloned the first wolf. They claim it was for saving these endangered species. It also turns out, that this team of scientists also produced the world's first cloned dog in 2005, an Afghan hound named Snuppy . Now, they have cloned 2 wolves, and the clones were named Snuwolf and Snuwolffy, that were born a year and a half ago.
This aricle really had me interested. I used to think it was a bad thing, but now, it seems that maybe, just maybe, it can help. While reading this, I found out that dogs/wolves are actually the hardest animal to clone, because of their reproductive cycle. But some how, this group of scientists managed to clone them anyways, and this is an amazing accomplishment.
[picture above: one of the clones of the wolves]

I found my article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17796859/