[Pick] A dog that died after giving 50 million won came back alive after a year?

On the 14th (local time), Chinese social media Weibo posted an article titled 'Successful in cloning a dead dog by investing 250,000 RMB'.

The text tells the story of Laoyang, a 20-year-old living in Beijing, China, who invested 250,000 yuan (about 50 million won) to clone a dead dog 'Lara', and was able to embrace the cloned dog again after about a year. This is contained. 

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Laoyang suffered from so-called 'Petloss Syndrome' (a feeling of loss and depression experienced after the death of a pet) when his dog 'Lara' passed away last year. 

Then, through an acquaintance, I got to know 'Sinogene', a Chinese companion animal cloning company, and asked the company to clone Lara. 

At that time, he had some of the cells extracted from the dead dog's body, and he planned to use them to fuse embryonic cells and later transplant them to the mother dog to welcome a new cloned dog. 

After that, the company that was commissioned succeeded in creating a cloned dog on the 9th through a complex process of fusion of embryonic cells for a year. 

However, immediately after the story was released, local SNS and netizens debated whether 'Lara's cloned dog can be seen as the same entity as Lara'. 

Cloned dogs are known to have identical genetic characteristics, such as body structure and innate abilities, in that they have the same genetic sequence as existing dogs. 

Nevertheless, some viewed it negatively, such as "cloning is highly likely to cause birth defects" and "no matter how similar it looks, it is a completely different organism because it has no previous memory."

On the other hand, there were people who supported the owner's decision, saying, "I understand the heart of the owner who cloned the puppy he was raising even at such an expensive price."   

Meanwhile, China gave birth to the first somatic cell cloned dog 'Longlong' in May 2017, and then approved commercialization for cloning companion animals in August of the same year.  

At that time, the Chinese government also announced that it would first apply companion animal cloning technology to working dogs deployed at the scene of the incident, such as police dogs. 

However, there are no clear regulations prohibiting animal cloning under local law. 

(Photo = 'City Report' Weibo video capture)