Lancelot Encore, the Cloned Dog

[Typical waste of money by americans with too much? or a worthy use of your life savings? - lol.. the Jman]

A Florida couple had their dog (golden retreiver) Lancelot's DNA frozen, then cloned after he died. They now have the 10 wk old clone, named Lancelot Encore -- cost: $150,000! Guy Adami on Fast Money said, "they could've bought 200 dogs for 750 each, kept the one that looked like Lancelot and given away all the others"

Better yet- find one that looked like that and give the other 149k to a local soup kitchen or food relief service for FLA HURRICANE victims.. oh well, my bias is showing... I like th idea of cloning, esp if we find an animal IMMUNE to something like the plague, or a human that can't get AIDS..

Here's the story on MSNBC: Florida Couple Clones Dog

It IS an awfully CUTE dog! who wouldn't want one?

Other good names: Lancelot Redux (like a movie), Lancelot II (like a horse or king), Lanc-a-clone, Looksalot Like Lancelot

ps2 - Geron (GERN)owns the rights to cloning, someone had to pay them royalties I hope - they cloned Dolly the Sheep or their technology did, the first cloned 'famous' animal (they had cloned mice in tests).. not much different than procreation really, since any animal has different memories and experience regardless of their DNA --- but it makes a good PR story -- grab yer kids DNA now in case something happens to one!