"Nice doggy... Give me two!": the little Chihuahua Millie cloned already 49 times
Chihuahua Miracle Milly (Milly Miracle) got into the Guinness Book of records... three times! First, she was recognized as the smallest puppy in the world, then the smallest dog alive. And now broke the third record, becoming the most cloned dog, scientists from South Korea have created a genetically identical copies of a 49 Millie. And all in order to understand why she is so tiny.
The study of clones will handle the staff of the Institute of genomics in Beijing. They characterize genetic and epigenetic factors original Millie and her clones and conduct scientific research. When you clone a dog, scientists conducted the genetic correction of possible errors the original specimen. So in the future it will be possible to correct almost any genetic abnormalities.
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