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March 2005

Genetic Savings and Clone: No Pet Project

Can it cash in on cloned cats?

By Wade Roush

A scientific victory can quickly devolve into a public-relations disaster, as Lou Hawthorne, CEO of Genetic Savings and Clone (GSC), learned the hard way in February 2002. Researchers funded by GSC at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, had just produced the world's first cloned cat, CC. The achievement was a critical step toward GSC's goal of helping bereft pet owners duplicate their aging or deceased cats and dogs. The problem: CC wasn't a very faithful copy. She was a gray tiger tabby and looked nothing like her genetic donor, an orange calico named Rainbow.

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