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It’s a bit strange to talk about the dog cloning ‘industry’ when only one company in the world seems to be engaged in the business. And that’s in South Korea.
But it’s stranger to find out the same company was also involved in generating the stem cells Texas Governor Rick Perry had injected into his spine this past July.
Perry’s doctor used stem cells developed for the Governor by RNL-Bio’s Texas affiliate. The procedure was a success, although as my Forbes colleague Stephen Richer has pointed out, it raises questions about how the FDA handles “off label” therapies and the problems this creates for drug companies.
RNL-Bio began its cloning work in cooperation with Seoul National University in Korea, where Hwang Woo-suk, the controversial professor later found guilty of scientific fraud, produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy.
In spite of his tarnished image, Hwang went on to help some (rather eccentric) Americans bring their deceased pets back to life. Their story is covered in Pulitzer Prize winning reporter John Woestendiek’s eye-opening book Dog, Inc., which came out last year.
While...
But it’s stranger to find out the same company was also involved in generating the stem cells Texas Governor Rick Perry had injected into his spine this past July.
Perry’s doctor used stem cells developed for the Governor by RNL-Bio’s Texas affiliate. The procedure was a success, although as my Forbes colleague Stephen Richer has pointed out, it raises questions about how the FDA handles “off label” therapies and the problems this creates for drug companies.
RNL-Bio began its cloning work in cooperation with Seoul National University in Korea, where Hwang Woo-suk, the controversial professor later found guilty of scientific fraud, produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy.
In spite of his tarnished image, Hwang went on to help some (rather eccentric) Americans bring their deceased pets back to life. Their story is covered in Pulitzer Prize winning reporter John Woestendiek’s eye-opening book Dog, Inc., which came out last year.
While...