Snuppy, The World's First Cloned Dog, Takes A Bow-Wow

South Korean scientists announced they had carried out the first successful cloning of a dog, creating a duplicate of a three-year-old Afghan hound by using the same technique that gave the world Dolly the Sheep. The copycat canine, born on April 24, has been named Snuppy, for Seoul National University Puppy, they reported in Nature, the British weekly science journal.

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