What way to preserve hair sample for cloning ?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by admin

My dog died and i am wondering what would be a practical and inexpensive way to preserve a hair sample for cloning purposes in case such procedures will become widely accessible one day in the future. Thank you.

Cloning requires cells with intact genetic material. The process requires a complete diploid set of intact chromosomes with their associated proteins as they exist in a living cell. At this time we do not know how to assemble functional chromosomes and their proteins and the hair’s cells have died so the cellular content is degraded.

Any DNA recovered from hair root would be broken and incomplete a very short time after your dog passed away. It would be sufficiently intact to get genetic fingerprints but not to clone.

I am sorry you miss your dog but it is not possible to clone from DNA that has degraded.

The other problem is the new dog would not be your beloved pet, it would be a new individual with its own personality.
Missy was cloned and the two clones are neither alike not like their cell donor Missy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/garden/01clones.html?pagewanted=all

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3 Responses to What way to preserve hair sample for cloning ?

  1. Liliana Gomez says:
    January 14, 2012 at 4:26 am

    yeah..do it, Maybe a dna sample would work too
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  2. gardengallivant says:
    January 14, 2012 at 5:02 am

    Cloning requires cells with intact genetic material. The process requires a complete diploid set of intact chromosomes with their associated proteins as they exist in a living cell. At this time we do not know how to assemble functional chromosomes and their proteins and the hair’s cells have died so the cellular content is degraded.

    Any DNA recovered from hair root would be broken and incomplete a very short time after your dog passed away. It would be sufficiently intact to get genetic fingerprints but not to clone.

    I am sorry you miss your dog but it is not possible to clone from DNA that has degraded.

    The other problem is the new dog would not be your beloved pet, it would be a new individual with its own personality.
    Missy was cloned and the two clones are neither alike not like their cell donor Missy.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/garden/01clones.html?pagewanted=all
    References :

  3. La Dolce Vita says:
    January 14, 2012 at 5:42 am

    Aetius: I don’t have an answer, however, I commend your question. I would love to do the same with my Lilly, Maltese Poodle. xoxxoxo
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