Snuppy, the first cloned dog
Snuppy, primer perro clonado
- Date
- 2005 · confidence high
- Place
- Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- Credited to
- Lee Byeong-chun and Hwang Woo-suk
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
An Afghan hound puppy cloned by somatic-cell nuclear transfer from an adult dog's ear cell and announced in Nature in 2005. It was the first cloned dog and the first successfully cloned carnivore with confirmed identity.
The dog clone was verified by DNA testing; Hwang Woo-suk lost standing over the 2004-2005 human stem-cell fraud, which did not affect Snuppy. Credit for the work is attributed mainly to Lee Byeong-chun's team.
What it led to
- commercial dog cloning
- studies of dog genetics and canine stem cells
- cloned working dogs