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Another Korean commercial pet cloning company, Viagen
ViaGen is not a Korean company. Its official contact information places it in Texas, and its cloning process is described as taking place in the United States.
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This sentence misidentifies ViaGen's location. ViaGen's own contact page lists the company at 116 East Main Street, Whitesboro, Texas 76273, and its FAQ says "the Viagen cloning process takes place in the U.S." That directly contradicts calling ViaGen a "Korean" company. The confusion may stem from earlier South Korean cloning firms such as Sooam, but ViaGen itself is a U.S.-based company.
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- Contact Viagen Pets, Pet Cloning Services, Genetic Preservation
Viagen Pets 116 East Main Street Whitesboro, TX 76273
- About | Viagen Pets
Where does the Viagen cloning process happen? To ensure the most animal-friendly and controlled conditions, the Viagen cloning process takes place in the U.S.
$30,000 for a cat
ViaGen's official pricing says cat cloning costs $50,000, not $30,000.
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ViaGen's current official pricing page says cat cloning costs are $50,000.00, paid in two equal installments. Its cloning checkout page likewise lists $50,000 as the total cost of cat cloning. That directly contradicts the article's statement that ViaGen charges $30,000 for a cat.
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- About | Viagen Pets
What is the cost of dog cloning and cat cloning? Dog cloning costs are $50,000.00... Cat cloning costs are $50,000.00, paid in two equal installments.
- Pet Cloning Process, Clone Your Dog, Cat Cloning, Dog Cloning
The total cost of cat cloning is $50,000, also paid in two equal installments.
The first successful cloning of a primate species was reported in January 2018
2018 was not the first successful primate cloning overall. A rhesus macaque named Tetra had already been cloned in 2000 by embryo splitting; 2018 was the first primate cloning by Dolly's SCNT method.
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This wording is too broad and is factually incorrect. A primate had already been cloned well before 2018: the 2000 Science paper indexed by PubMed reports the birth of Tetra, a healthy rhesus macaque produced by embryo splitting, and describes it as clonal propagation of primate offspring. National Geographic's 2018 coverage of Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua explicitly notes that these were not the first cloned monkeys overall; rather, they were the first primates cloned using the same somatic cell nuclear transfer method as Dolly. So January 2018 marks the first SCNT-cloned primates, not the first successful cloning of a primate species in general.
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- Clonal propagation of primate offspring by embryo splitting - PubMed
The birth of Tetra, a healthy female cloned from a quarter of an embryo, proves that this approach can result in live offspring.
- In World First, Monkeys Cloned Like Dolly the Sheep | National Geographic
ARE THESE THE FIRST CLONED MONKEYS? Technically, no. In 1999, researchers “cloned” a rhesus macaque by splitting an early-stage macaque embryo into multiple parts.