Snuppy (Korean: 스너피, romanized: Seuneopi, a portmanteau of "SNU" and "puppy"; April 24, 2005 – May 2015) [2] was an Afghan hound, the first dog clone. The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only two produced pups (Snuppy being the sole survivor).

Apr 24, 2015 · Snuppy was a clone, the first successful one of his species, produced by a team of South Korean researchers from a single cell culled from an Afghan hound’s ear. (His name was an...

Aug 3, 2005 · South Korean scientists announced Wednesday they have created the first cloned dog. Snuppy, an Afghan hound, was born in April. The cloning technique used is not efficient. It took nearly 2,000...

The 10 th birthday of the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, was celebrated in April 2015, but he died just 13 days later. Snuppy was a symbol of a revolutionary breakthrough in dog cloning achieved using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

Mar 13, 2025 · Snuppy was a cloned Afghan h ound that took the scientific world by storm. He was born to a surrogate on April 24, 2005, and he lived to be 10 years of age. Other species had been successfully cloned at this time, but Woo Suk Hwang wanted to create the first canine clone. Snuppy was named the “Most Amazing Invention” of the year in 2005.

Mar 19, 2025 · Snuppy was a cloned Afghan hound that took the scientific world by storm. He was born to a surrogate on April 24, 2005, and he lived to be 10 years of age. Other species had been successfully cloned at this time, but Woo Suk Hwang wanted to create the first canine clone. In 2005, Snuppy was named the "Most Amazing Invention" of the year.

Aug 3, 2005 · We named the first cloned dog Snuppy (for Seoul National University puppy); it is shown in Fig. 1a with the male Afghan fibroblast donor. Snuppy was delivered by caesarian section after 60 days...

The first cloned dog to survive birth is Snuppy, an Afghan hound puppy, created by Hwang Woo-Suk (South Korea) and his team of scientists at Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea, after which the dog was named.

Aug 3, 2005 · Canine eggs are tough to crack, but clone finally survives. Snuppy and the older dog who donated his ear cell to bring the clone to life. Credit: © Woo Suk Hwang. The first duplicate pooch ambles...

Nov 23, 2017 · Scientists have used a cloned dog to create four more dogs in an experiment to find out what happens when animals are re-cloned. The team created the dogs—Afghan hounds—with stem cells from...