Snuppy

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Snuppy pronounced "snoo-pee" (born April 24, 2005) is the first cloned dog. This Afghan hound clone was created by Woo Suk Hwang and his team of scientists at Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea. The name "Snuppy" is a combination of "SNU" and "puppy."

The researchers transferred 1,095 dog embryos into 123 females, inducing three pregnancies. One fetus miscarried, and one clone died of pneumonia after three weeks. A Labrador Retriever carried the third embryo to term. The team announced their success in cloning in August of 2005. [1]

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  1. ^  "Snuppy rewards dogged approach". Nature website. URL accessed on August 4, 2005.

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