Tom Brady says his canine is a clone.
The six-time Tremendous Bowl-winning quarterback and present Fox Sports activities broadcaster mentioned Tuesday in a press release from an organization he is an investor in that his canine, Junie, is a clone of his late canine, Lua.
Brady made the announcement on the identical day that Colossal Biosciences, a enterprise capital-backed biotech start-up, made an acquisition of one other animal cloning agency, Viagen Pets and Equine.
Colossal, which goals to “repair” de-extinction amongst different targets, is alleged to be valued at $10 billion — and that is its first main acquisition.
“I really like my animals,” Brady mentioned in a press release launched by the corporate. “They imply the world to me and my household. A couple of years in the past, I labored with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning expertise by a easy blood draw of our household’s aged canine earlier than she handed.”
The canine is a pitbull combine. Lua was adopted by Brady and his former spouse, Giselle Bundchen. The couple divorced in 2022. Lua died in December 2023.
Colossal makes use of genetic engineering and cloning with a aim of reviving extinct species.
In late 2024, Colossal mentioned it used cloning and gene enhancing to start three dire wolf pups. The dire wolf was beforehand extinct. A number of teams, together with the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature, disputed the declare.