Tom Brady dropped a headline grabbing nugget on Tuesday: his family dog, Junie, is a genetic twin of the Brady household’s late pup, Lua. The seven-time Super Bowl champion disclosed the detail in conjunction with biotech company Colossal Biosciences announcing it has acquired animal cloning firm ViaGen Pets & Equine a deal that signals a major scaling-up of consumer pet cloning and conservation projects.
How Brady did it
Brady said the process began with a non-invasive blood draw from Lua before she passed in 2023. Colossal then leveraged cloning tech now folded into the company through ViaGen to produce Junie, a pit bull mix genetically identical to Lua.