China Begins Training First Cloned Police Dog

A police force in China is getting ready to deploy its latest tool in the fight against crime; a cloned police dog.

The puppy, a kunming wolfdog called ‘Kunxun‘, was created in the labratory using cells from what police described as the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of canine law enforcement as part of a program they hope will reduce the considerable cost and training time needed for the police dogs of the future.

Kunxun was born in December last year at the Sinogene Biotechnology Labs in China.

The genetic material used to create Kunxun was taken from a 7-year-old female police dog named ‘Huahuangma’ who has helped police to solve 12 murder cases and has participated in over 20 other important investigations.

In 2016, this dedicated and hard-working police dog was given the first-class meritorious dog awards by China’s Ministry of Public Security.

Sinogene hopes that the cloning of Huahuangma’s “excellent genes” can protect the breed and be “passed down from generation to generation.”

The company is conducting the project along with Yunnan Agricultural University and the Ministry of Public Security, according to Chinese state media.

In September 2018, scientists began cultivating Huahuangma’s cells from a few millimetres of skin samples.

The contents of the somatic cell were then implanted into an egg cell that had its nucleus removed.

This embryo was then transferred to a surrogate beagle.

Kunxun’s DNA is 99% the same as Huahuangma’s, China’s Global Times reported.

On March 5, 3-month-old Kunxun flew to the Kunming Police Dog Base in China’s Yunnan province to begin the intensive training required to become a police dog.

She is showing “a better potential” than non-cloned Kuming wolfdogs already, the base’s leading researcher Wan Jiusheng told the Science and Technology Daily.

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