Chinese scientists have announced the birth of the world's first cloned dog, called Long Long. The world's first cloned dog and genetically modified dog has been born in China, scientists announced. The puppy, named Long Long, was born May 28 in the laboratory of Beijing-based biotech company Sino Gene. His father, Apple was born in December and was the world's first dog created by gene editing. Sino Gene say that Long Long represents a breakthrough in the development of genetically modified "super dogs" that are bigger or stronger than ordinary dogs. Project scientist Lai Liangxue of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health told China's Science and Technology Daily that the birth is a "breakthrough," which makes China only the second country in the world, after South Korea, to independently master dog-somatic clone technology. "With this technology, by selecting a certain gene of the dog, we can breed an animal with more muscles, better sense of