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The U.S. current affairs magazine Time has picked the world��s first cloned dog Snuppy as the most amazing invention of 2005.
Reuters cited Time as saying the dog, cloned in August by a Korean
team of scientists led by genetics pioneer Prof. Hwang Woo-suk, was so
remarkable because it was created by a revolutionary method known as
somatic nuclear cell transfer, which inserts a somatic cell taken, in
this case, from an Afghan hound into the egg of another dog whose
nucleus has been removed. Other amazing inventions of the year include a bicycle with
hydrogen fuel cell engine, a disposable camcorder, and a cat robot with
the ability to understand voice command. ([email protected] )
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