| Industry | Biotechnology |
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| Services | Pet cloning |
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Sinogene Biotechnology is a Chinese biotechnology company, focusing on animal cloning technology for consumers. [1] [2] Their pet cloning services include: dog, [3] [4] cat, [5] [6] cow, and horse cloning. [7]
In 2022, Sinogene made history by being the first to clone a wild Arctic wolf. [8]
Sinogene Biotechnology began offering dog cloning services in 2017 [3] [4] [9] and later introduced cat cloning in 2019. [5] [6] [10]
In 2022, Sinogene became the first company to successfully clone an Arctic wolf, [11] and started horse cloning in 2023. [12] [7] The donor cell came from a wild female Arctic wolf, the oocyte was from a female dog, and the surrogate was a beagle. [8] The company transferred 85 embryos into seven beagles and one Arctic wolf was born. [13] In June of the same year, Sinogene cloned a male horse using skin cells from a horse born in 1995. [14]
Sinogene partnered with Beijing Wildlife Park in 2022 to work together on improving breeding for endangered animals as well as improving ways to protect endangered animals. [13] [15]
Sinogene clients can harvest cells from their living pets, to one day use in the cloning process after their pet dies. [7] Customers receive their cloned animals three months after they are born. [7]
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