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Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood

Posted by samzenpus on from the ever-lasting-lassie dept.

Kate Thompson writes "A week after San Francisco's Genetic Savings and Clone revealed the sale of their first cat to a customer, the Boston Phoenix reports that GS & C acknowledges it has been hired by anonymous buyers in Hollywood to bank genes of show business animals."

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  1. Yawn... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    They're already cloning all their scripts.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Nature versus nurture by beders · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just because the cloned animal has exactly the same genes, doesn't mean that it will exhibit the same behaviour.

    The dog that played Benji might have had an ideal temperament for filming, but it's clone, brought up slightly differently might be a right little ankle biter.

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    Brocklesby Park Cricket Club
  3. Clone my wife! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, if Peter Jackson had been able to clone 100,000 copies of my wife he'd have had his Orc army without needing special effects.