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Published online 4 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.936
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Dog cloners baring their teeth
Rival companies are about to clash over who has the rights to the crucial technology.
Last week a US dog-cloning company told a South Korean dog-cloning company to stop its commercial activities in what looks set to become a messy patent battle.
The case involves disgraced cloner Woo Suk Hwang, a former Seoul National University (SNU) professor, on the US side and SNU’s Byeong Chun Lee, formerly a junior professor on Hwang’s team who played a key role in cloning the first dog in 2005, on the South Korean side.
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there are gossips that the Koreans might use the cloning in very bad purposes...like for the food market; this would be unacceptable and a big shadow on genetics and medicine realization.