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.
Garlic indeed. Making their own food.
That was a brilliant name. Re-pet.
I’ve always owned cats. One or two at a time, indoors outdoors all breeds and sizes. They are all pretty much the same. I confess I’ve never been terribly sorry when they’ve died with one exception and that’s the half grown kitten I saw slammed in a car door. I can’t imagine paying that kind of money for or on a cat.
“... there also plan to clone horses and carrier pigeons in the future ...”
I’ll bet they mean passenger pigeon and not carrier pigeon.
Who would clone a carrier pigeon? It’s just a garden variety pigeon who’s been trained to carry messages.
“Cat’s ‘markings’ aren’t genetic. “
And you wrote your thesis on cat markings?
Do these $30,000+ cats come with bodyguards?
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Money better spent on psychological care.
Still makes me think of “Lady and the Tramp”
The two cats singing:
The Siamese Cat Song
Peggy Lee
We are Siamese if you please
We are Siamese if you don’t please
We are former residents of Siam
There are no finer cat than I am
Do you see what I see with my eyes?
People have been baking up some pies
Peeping jumping up upon their window
Though delicious spice we could get into
Who is that who is living in that wire house
It must be a bird because it’s not a mouse
If we’re sneakin’ up upon it carefully
There will…
Pretty kitty!!!
Horrible idea. The shelters are full of precious cats who need homes.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
You guys are all focused on cats, but I believe this is just a step towards cloning people, particularly female Chinese people, in order to redress the dangerous imbalance in the ratio of males to females in China due to the “one child” policy.
You may laugh, but the Chicoms have already tacitly approved the importation of brides from neighboring countries, and made it difficult for them to leave once they’ve found out they’ve been tricked.
Genetic inheritance is one part of the equation. The other is environment, upbringing. Buying a cloned cat is self-delusion.
The part about sharing memories by using artificial intelligence, is ludicrous. Why not hire an animal psychic to communicate with the dead cat and ask the cat things?
According to evolutionary theory, (binary) sexual reproduction exists for a very good reason. It increases the organism’s chances of outrunning bacteria as they mutate to find ways to attack the organism. So this flies in the face of common scientific thinking.
After this, humans. Do you think they aren’t trying it now? How long before some “scientist” announces that he cloned a human? What he won’t tell you is how many embryos were tried and failed and destroyed in the process.
Our cats just show up at the door or are handed to us as unwanted kittens and each is totally unique.
We had a dog we raised from it’s birth, since we had it’s mother as well.
It was a mutt, mixed breed everything.
It was also the smartest dog I have ever had!
It would learn things very easily and we taught him the usual tricks, fetch, roll over, etc.
But he could differentiate between different kinds of balls and toys, so we could say get the tennis ball or baseball or football and he would get the right ball.
We could say get your leash and he would fetch that.
I’d say ‘Chase your tail!’ and he would do that! He was very smart.....................
I usually skip over the garlic kitten and get garlic pork instead.
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