Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-1259419-20141212145505/@comment-1259419-20141212151204

There is a company in South Korea that clones pet dogs for $100,000 pop (see here). Sooam, led by Dr. Woo Suk Hwang, has cloned 400,000 dogs since 2006. They have 15 clients of month. I assume they dogs have to be healthy, otherwise no-one would pay for it. The recognize that many dogs are born unhealthy, so they have to repeat the process until a healthy dog is produced. And they still make profits.

I like this news because Dr. Becker wrote about a pet cloning company that started in 2000, Genetic Savings and Clone. This company had gone out of business because cloning was too inefficient and expensive. even at $50,000 a pop, they couldn't make profits. She took the fate of this company as evidence that cloning for profit is not possible. She wrote that in 2008 in The Science of Michael Crichton. The fact that she did not mention Sooam (that was almost 2 years in business at the time) shows me again that she was not the best person to comment of the whole cloning-dinosaurs-issue.