Dog cloning to be easier and 50% cheaper, says firm

CLONING a beloved pet dog is expected to be easier and perhaps as much as 50% less costly, a South Korean biotech firm has said as it unveiled a new cloning technology.

But pet owners — who have to shell out $100,000 (€78,000) or more to clone a pet dog — will still have to pay tens of thousands of dollars if they want to clone their beloved dogs and should be prepared for long waits because most commercial canine cloning is for working animals including sniffer dogs at airports.

RNL Bio said it has developed a new method to clone dogs using stem cells derived from fat tissue that greatly increases the likelihood of success.