Posted on 08/21/2019 7:57:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sinogene plans to sell cloned cats for £29,000
A Chinese company has announced it is planning a mass sale of cloned cats to the general public.
Sinogene, China's first biotech company to create cloned pets, is planning to sell the cats for around £29,000.
It is planning to target bereaved pet owners who have lost their feline.
The announcement comes after a scientist from the company cloned their first kitten named Garlic, born a month ago at the company's laboratory in Beijing.
Sinogene only revealed its existence this week after the animal got stronger.
The original cat, which supplied the cells for cloning, and Garlic are identical in appearance but have different temperaments, memories and personalities.
To enable the cloned cats to share the same memories with the original, the company is considering the use of artificial intelligence.
The company currently says it is targeting 100 to 200 orders this year but hopes to receive 300 to 500 annually.
A cloned cat's life expectancy is the same as any other cat, Lai Liangxue, Sinogene's chief scientist and a research fellow revealed.
Sinogene made headlines by cloning a gene-edited beagle in May 2017.
Then a month later it launched commercial cloning services.
It is currently cloning dogs by using a lab to remove the cells from a dog’s egg and then transplant cells from another dog.
The company's deputy general manager Zhao Jianping told Crime Russia there also plan to clone horses and carrier pigeons in the future.
Sinogene is also planning to expand services to eventually include gene editing.
Sinogene’s CEO Mi Jidong said: “We’ve discovered more and more pet owners want their pets to accompany them for an even longer period of time."
In 2014 a woman in Texas, US, became the world's first owner of a cloned-to-order feline, after paying biotech firm Genetic Savings & Clone Inc, $50,000 for a genetic duplicate of her dead pet.
More than just the markings, I’d say. Cats have a lot of “hard-wired” traits that would be reproduced as well.
The conditioned behavior would not be the same however, unless you could somehow recreated all its early experiences.
Wish I could get my little pal. Can’t believe he’s been gone almost three years now.
Are you blending Total Recall and the 6th Day?
This means Grumpy cat will live in perpetuity.
If I had a dozen velociraptors, I’d turn them loose at the Democrat Convention.
Not Nationalist Chinese, Communist Chinese.
It’s not going to pickup where your old pet left off
Cloned Cats - could be name of a rock band! Sort of a progressive metal band.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I see what you did there..................
Yes, consistency of quality is very important. Taste is everything, in Asian Cuisine...................
Not fit for human consumption.
Gee, that’s original.
Just have your old cat stuffed and place on windowsill.
It’ll be just like it never left...............
getting Fluffy stuffed is a lot cheaper..............
A cat named Cujo?
Think you're funny? News flash: You're NOT.
When our little gray cat died the last thing I wanted was another cat that looked just like him.
We now have a marmalade and a brown tiger. They bring all the joy and none of the split second hurt.
Did you watch the 2019 iteration of the movie?
My neighbor had a Manx cat named that..............
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