Created Wed 28th Jan 6:29am PST by

jhouseholder Level 11, Legend (H$15,226)

Will anyone else in the US clone their dog in 2009?

Background: MIAMI — A Boca Raton couple got a new dog, and it's just like their old dog. Not just the same breed and gender, but the same DNA.

Nina and Edgar Otto picked up their cloned yellow lab puppy at the Miami International Airport Monday night. Lancelot Encore was cloned from the DNA of the Ottos' late dog Lancelot, which died of cancer in January 2008. Guessing that pet cloning would one day be possible, the Ottos had DNA samples of their dog frozen five years ago.

The Ottos paid $155,000 in a San Francisco biotech firm's dog-cloning auction last July.

BioArts International created Lancelot Encore in South Korea, where he was born 10 weeks ago. The Ottos say he's the first single-birth, commercially cloned puppy in the United States.

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

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Suspend date: Mon 28th Dec 11:59pm PST (7 weeks to go)

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 50%

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Created Wed 28th Jan 6:29am PST by

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Changed Suspend date Thu 29th Jan 1:51am PST by

tisha

: was: "2009-02-28 23:59:00"

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syne

predicted No (H$50 at 53%)

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lish

predicted No (H$100 at 53%)

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predicted No (H$400 at 52%)

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predicted No (H$50 at 52%)

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predicted No (H$50 at 48%)

Comments (5)

tisha

I wonder if that means that Lancelot Encore's DNA means he is due to get cancer as well? That would be a bit sad.

posted 40 weeks ago

capecodviking [Power User]

I'm not sure if four weeks will be long enough. Consider that Lancelot Encore's birth was not announced until he was mature enough for delivery (ten weeks old in his case). Also consider the price tag involved (in this case, it was $155,000). A oood background article with helpful links is http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/01/28/family-dog-cloned-thanks-to-dolly-patents/id=1829/ On the other hand, it seems likely that BioArts might have started already on another one at the same time L.E. was growing up. So maybe it is possible after all that there is a 50% chance another one will be delivered and announced within the next four weeks.

posted 40 weeks ago

tisha

Good point about when the question should settle - the suspend date was wrong, given that the question refers to the period of 2009, so I've edited that. But I think that this question should only settle if another cloned dog is successfully born in 2009, or if we hear about it in the media in 2009.

posted 40 weeks ago

capecodviking [Power User]

Ah, thanks for the intervention, tisha, good decision. I would have flagged it if I'd really thought it needed that, but sometimes a really good admin can sense these things somehow.

posted 38 weeks ago

thaitanium Level 8, Super-Pro (H$5,809)

tisha, DNA doesn't determine whether an individual is going to get cancer or not, although it can cause a susceptibility to develop cancer.

posted 18 weeks ago

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