A Breed Apart: Cloning's Next Step First of Three Parts; See Spot Again?; Wisconsin has Played a Key Role in the Science of Animal Cloning, but a Madison-Area Business That Intends to Clone Pets has Unleashed a Fierce Debate

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › March 31, 2005

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Waunakee It's just another brown brick building in a suburban business park.

But Suite J at the Waunakee Business Center is about to turn into the animal cloning debate's ground zero. Genetic Savings & Clone Inc. the entrepreneurial outfit that introduced the first cloned pet cat to the world in December is opening its doors in this small Madison suburb in April. The company's CEO, Lou Hawthorne, has promised that by year's end, a dog will be born here.

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A Breed Apart: Cloning's Next Step First of Three Parts; See Spot Again?; Wisconsin has Played a Key Role in the Science of Animal Cloning, but a Madison-Area Business That Intends to Clone Pets has Unleashed a Fierce Debate

In the eight years since Dolly the sheep's birth was announced to the world, research into animal cloning has progressed in ways few dreamed possible a decade ago.

Scientists have now cloned barnyard animals and endangered species. They've created cloned cows from frozen steaks and cloned mice from cancer cells. They've talked about resurrecting extinct creatures such as woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers. And with the news on Thursday that soft tissue from dinosaurs had been discovered, re-creating these giant lizards does not seem so farfetched. Despite the scientific excitement, creativity and ingenuity that have inspired and driven this res...

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