They have shown exactly how they can clone a dog even after it has died

A new show has been given

This is the first glimpse inside the South Korean lab that is the only place in the world to offer commercial dog cloning.

The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul headed by Dr Woo Suk Hwong has so far cloned 700 dogs to date and claim they can replicate any dog regardless of its age, size and breed.

And now the research lab has given unprecedented access to a team from NBC to show exactly how they can clone an owner's beloved dog after it dies.

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Some of the puppies play inside the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea where they offer commercial dog cloning

Two of the clone dogs at the lab. They claim they can clone any dog regardless of age, size or breed

In a new programme called On Assignment set to air on Sunday evening in the U.S. correspondent Harry Smith travelled to the lab in Seoul, where they charge $100,000 (£69,000) to recreate dogs using their DNA.

While there, he met up with British couple Laura Jacques and Richard Remede from West Yorkshire, who used the DNA from their dead boxer dog Dylan to create two new dogs called Chance and Shadow.

And Mr Smith recalls the moment when he saw Miss Jacques and Mr Remede meet their cloned puppies for the first time.

He told MailOnline: 'Seeing them with their cloned dogs was something close to bliss.

Correspondent Harry Smith from NBC was given unprecedented access to the facility to meet some of the dogs

Mr Smith noted that as far as he could see, all of the dogs at the lab seemed happy and well cared for

'The dogs in this particular case were almost the spitting image of the dog that was cloned.

'They also had to find a surrogate dogs to carry the pups and now they are all back in Britain with the two cloned dogs. Laura just loves dogs.'

THE SCIENCE BEHIND DOG CLONING The process involves obtaining live cells from a living dog or a dog five days after it has died. Dogs that have similar ovulation time are selected as egg donors and surrogate mothers. Eggs are collected from the egg donor through a procedure called ‘flushing’ and the nuclei of the eggs, which contain DNA of the egg donor, is removed. Then donor cell is then injected into the enucleated egg and the two cells are ‘fused’ together. This fusion procedure produces a cloned embryo that is transferred into a surrogate dog. Advertisement

As well as getting the opportunity to see Miss Jacques and Mr Remede go through the process of cloning their dead dog, Mr Smith also got to see exactly how the lab extracts DNA and implants it to make a new animal.

And even though it seemed to be a simple process, he added it was a very delicate and scientific process.

He added: 'One of the wow moments at the lab was when were were shown under a microscope how DNA is taken from one egg and implanted into another.

'It seems a very easy thing to do but it is a very scientific process.

'When we were looking at the DNA through a microscope it definitely wasn't biology 101.

'It is like watching a surreal scientific experiment and the slightest thing can make affect the process and make it fail.

'But they have done this more than 700 times now and seem to have got it down to an art.'

Sooam Biotech has cloned highly trained rescue and police dogs for the South Korean government, as well as a number of highly prized pets in the US.

But the cloning of animals has been a source of controversy since the technique was pioneered in Scotland in 1996 with the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned.

Miss Jacques with the surrogate dog and her two clone puppies at the Sooam Biotech Foundation in Seoul

Cloned puppies Shadow and Chance in the days after they were born at the lab in Seoul after being cloned from a dead dog

Miss Jacques former dog Dylan, who died and whose DNA was used to make two clone dogs Chance and Shadow

While cloning humans in Europe is illegal, there is no law against cloning a pet. It is illegal, however, to clone a farm animal.

But despite the South Korean lab delighting some dog owners by cloning their beloved pets, there is a debate on whether the process is ethical.

But Mr Smith says from what their team could determine while at the lab, all of the dogs there seemed happy and were given the best of care.