Company offers to clone dogs for 5 highest bidders

May 22nd, 2008 By MARCUS WOHLSEN, Associated Press Writer Company offers to clone dogs for 5 highest bidders (AP)

In this image provided by BioArts International, BioArts International chief executive Lou Hawthorne poses with dogs cloned from his family pet on Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Mill Valley, Calif. BioArts is offering to clone the dogs of the five highest bidders in an online auction next month. Opening bids start at $100,000. The cloning project is in partnership with a South Korean research team that includes Hwang Woo-Suk, who scandalized the international scientific community in 2005 when his breakthrough human cloning research was found to have been faked. (AP Photo/BioArts International)

(AP) -- A Northern California biotech company announced Wednesday that it will clone dogs for the five highest bidders in a series of online auctions. Some ethicists condemned the offer, fearing it could lead to human clones.



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    human cloning is just around the corner. it cannot be stopped.
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    and who told you it hasn't started already?

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