Inside the growing business of pet cloning | BBC News

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You might remember the buzz over cloning when Dollythe Sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell,was born in 1996.

Fast forward two decades and cloning technology hasmoved on so much that you can now clone your pets.

But, animal cloning is still controversial and criticshave raised ethical concerns about the wellbeing of donors and surrogates.

The success rate of a cloned embryo is relatively lowand complications during the cloning process cancause pain and suffering to the animals involved.

This video is from BBC Click, the BBC's flagshiptechnology programme and was made in collaboration with BBC Reel.

Video by Claudia Baxter and Tristan VinceExecutive producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh Reporter: Stephanie Hegarty

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