SEOUL (Reuters) - The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.
"It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive again," McKinney told a news conference in the South Korea capital to show off the week-old black puppies -- all of whose names include the word Booger.
They are the work of the biotech firm RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab which produced the world's first cloned dog and is staffed with former associates of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.
She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000 for RNL scientists to turn skin cells taken from Booger before he died two years ago into embryos carried by two surrogate dogs for two months until giving birth to the puppies last week.
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I've always been a dog lover. And I could see how some would view these pets as family members. But I think when they pass away, it's really time to let go. I'm a bit conflicted about bringing their clones back to life. What is next? Grandpa?
haha... me too..
It's sad but, sometimes, it's kinda overacting cloning your pet. Aside from it's expensive, it's time to have another one, right? Replacing a pet doesn't mean to be exactly as what it was before...
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