The World's First Commercially Cloned Dogs, Boogers, Were Sent Home Last Month

Dec. 30, 2008 - PRLog -- RNL Bio announced that the clones of Booger, world’s first commercially clones dogs, were sent back home by the owner Bernann. She didn’t want to ship her puppies in the kennels at the air carrier’s cargo area and had to make multiple visits to Seoul, Korea last month. As soon as she arrived in the US, she ordered UC Davis for the DNA identification tests to confirm the genuineness of the clones. Though RNL Bio provided the independent DNA test result that was done by Forensic Medicine department of Seoul National University, she wanted to check that again with the university lab in the US. The results were exactly same as the one done by Seoul National University. She said “I already knew it because the intelligence was exactly replicated and they have the same body shape. Now I enjoy my pleasant moments with mini-Boogers”

Actually Bernann was a lucky woman. In 2006, she managed to contact a US based biotech company for the tissue preservation before she lost her beloved Booger due to prostate cancer and pneumonia at his age of nine. If she was not aware that such preservation was available or she failed to get biopsy before his death, she was to never get the second chance. At that time, the US company didn’t offer any dog cloning service and besides it was dissolved in late 2006. She searched everywhere to find dog cloning company and finally contacted RNL Bio in last February. She prayed over an over again for the miracle. The cloning team led by Prof. Byeongchun Lee, known as the father of SNUppy the world’s first cloned dog, from Seoul National University accomplished the successful cloning of Booger. Five clones were born on Jul 28 2008. RNL Bio had press conference to announce the world’s first commercial dog cloning. Bernann

Dr. Jeong Chan Ra, CEO of RNL Bio said “We have received hundreds of inquires from pet owners who are interested in dog cloning. Surprisingly, over 50% of them asked us about cloning of their passed dogs. You could contact us before your dog died if you would reserve a chance to clone a dog.” RNL Bio offers stem cell banking service as insurance for pet owner’s or family’s attached and beloved dogs. Dog cloning cannot revive the dead dog but you can get the clone that has same genetics material almost like identical twins. Motivated pet owners have only to send biopsy sample from their dogs before the dogs pass away. What if your dog just got an accident? Within a few hours after death, some stem cells possibly remain alive and RNL Bio may be able to isolate live stem cells from them and preserve them for later use. RNL’s stem cell preservation service for dogs could be a great present not only for the family who hope to get the genetic copy of their dog in the future but also for dogs themselves because the preserved stem cells can be used for future stem cells therapy for the dogs.

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RNL is a premier biotech company in Korea focused on stem cell therapeutics. Headquartered in Seoul with a recently opened state-of-the-art GMP facility, RNL is a publicly traded company on the Korean Stock Exchange (Code 003190)