It Costs Streisand $50,000 to Clone Her Dog

choi

Barbra Streisand, Why I cloned My Dog Sammie; After a beloved pet has died, sadness arrives, as well as surprises. New York Times, Mar 4, 2018 (in the SundayStyles section).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/ ... cloned-her-dog.html

Quote:

"I was so devastated by the loss of my dear Samantha * * * Sammie's doctor took some cells from inside her cheek and the skin on her tummy just before she died. And we sent those cells to ViaGen Pets in Texas.

I took a puppy from a dog breeder and "named her [dog] Miss Fanny [a nickname of Frances; Fanny is now seldom used, because it also means 'vulva' in British English and 'buttocks' in American English, for the latter, see 'fanny pack' in American English, which is not considered vulgar].  She's a straight-haired Coton de Tulear * * * My Sammie was [a] curly haired [Coton] and that’s why my husband initially picked her out for me as an anniversary present — she was the odd one, different, just like I felt as a little girl. One of the reasons I chose cloning was because I couldn't find another curly-haired Coton."

"And then I got a call from the lab. Not only did the cloning process take, but it produced four puppies! Unfortunately the runt of the litter died before the puppies were old enough to be delivered to me.

"So now I have three puppies at home, Miss Fanny, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett [the last two are clones of Sammie], and it’s a bit overwhelming. But we love them so much. Each puppy is unique and has her own personality.

Note:
(a)
(i) Coton du Tulear is a dog breed originating from Tulear, a port city in Madagascar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toliara
(ii) French-English dictionary:
* coton (noun masculine; etymology): "cotton"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coton

(b) Viagen Pets
https://viagenpets.com

The website does not list its scientific advisors.
(c) Korean biologist Hwang Woo-suk  黃禹錫
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk

first cloned dogs, in South Korea.
(i) Kim MJ et al, Birth of Clones of the World's First Cloned Dog. Sci Report, 7: (Nov 10, 2017)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29127382
(ii) Snuppy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuppy
(iii) Guang is now with
Sooam 秀岩 Biotech Research Foundation
http://en.sooam.com/dogcn/sub01.html