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[By the way, "Snuppy" stands for "Snuppy — short for Seoul National University Puppy]

First Cloned Dog Is a One-in-a-Thousand Success
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2005

Hwang said his group's primary aim was to develop genetically identical laboratory dogs for the study of animal and human diseases.

"With the promise of using a homogenous population of cloned dogs, maladies such as hypertension, diabetes, breast cancer or genetic disorders like congenital cardiac defect can be studied more efficiently," said Hwang, whose lab was the first to clone human embryos last year.

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