Most pet parents learn about cell preservation too late, days after the loss, reading late at night. As their veterinarian, you are the only person who can tell them in time.
No equipment. No training. No upfront cost. Begin with your next eligible client.
“They find it days after the loss, reading late at night, and they discover they missed the chance while they were grieving. As their family vet, you are the only person who could have told them in time.”
Two minutes on what cell preservation is, who it is for, and exactly what it asks of you. If you would rather read than watch, everything below covers the same ground.
Some pet parents struggle more than others when facing loss. You recognize them: the ones who ask if there is anything else that can be done, who aren't ready to let go, who wish there was more time.
These conversations are emotionally difficult for both client and clinician. There is rarely anything left to offer beyond comfort.
No pressure to make an irreversible decision in the hardest week of their life.
A possibility most pet parents never knew existed, kept open for as long as they want it.
Something they can do, at a moment when doing nothing feels unbearable.
Only about 5% of preservation clients ever go on to clone. The rest find real comfort simply in knowing the possibility stays open. That decision can be made years later, or never.
Most pet parents have never heard of cell preservation. Your role is simply to let highly attached clients know the option exists, particularly when discussing end-of-life planning for an aging or terminally ill pet. We handle everything that follows, including all client communication.
Cell preservation, sometimes called genetic preservation, grows living dermal fibroblasts from a small routine skin biopsy. Fibroblasts are the gold standard cell type for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the scientific term for cloning. The cells are then cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen at −320 °F (−196 °C), where they stay viable indefinitely.
Preservation happens today, in your clinic. Cloning is an entirely separate, optional decision the pet parent may make years later, or never.
SCNT uses the preserved fibroblasts to create an embryo that develops into a genetically identical animal, carrying the same physical characteristics, coat pattern and genetic traits as the original pet.
It does not recreate the same individual. Personality, learned behavior and individual quirks develop through unique life experience. Pet parents should understand they would be welcoming a genetic twin, not resurrecting their pet.
Sample collection must happen within roughly 5 days of passing, with the body refrigerated at 35 to 39 °F (2 to 4 °C). Temperature is decisive: warmer conditions shorten this window sharply, while prompt refrigeration extends cell viability.
For best results: collect the biopsy ante-mortem from a terminally ill pet. Post-mortem collection also works if the body was refrigerated right away.
A standard veterinary procedure with a protocol we provide. Nothing to install, nothing to stock, nothing to learn.
Devoted pet parents of aging or terminally ill pets showing anticipatory grief or difficulty with end-of-life decisions.
Explain that cell preservation exists and what it offers. We supply the educational materials for your clinic.
Standard skin biopsy. Store the sample in a sterile tube with sterile saline. Full protocol provided.
Overnight courier to our U.S. lab, arranged by the clinic or the client. The sample stays refrigerated at 35 to 39 °F in transit.
Cell culture, quality control, cryopreservation, storage management and all client communication.
A new service line that costs you nothing to add, and a real answer for the conversations that are hardest to have.
Become a partner clinicPlus applicable sales tax.
$48,000 when cells are already preserved with us.
Sinogene is among the world's leading pet cloning companies, with hundreds of successful procedures behind it. Roughly 95% of clients choose preservation alone. Cloning simply stays available should they ever decide to pursue it.
If a pet parent remembers nothing else from the conversation, these are the three points that decide whether preservation stays possible.
Freezing destroys cell viability and eliminates every future option. Refrigerate only, at 35 to 39 °F.
Roughly five days post-mortem when properly refrigerated. Immediate refrigeration maximizes the chance of success.
For terminally ill pets, a biopsy taken before passing gives the highest cell quality and the widest margin.
Dr François-Xavier Pellay is a research scientist who has spent more than twenty years on why cells age and what can be done about it. He has discovered new molecules, developed methods to restore function in aging cells, and today leads Bimini Biotech, where that research continues in AFI+, an autologous fibroblast therapy. Fibroblasts, the cells preserved here, are the cell type he has worked with longest.
Bimini Pet came out of the limits of that work. Aging science is moving, but not fast enough for the animal in front of you today. Preserving living cells is what can be done now, while the rest catches up.
He founded the service four years ago and has spoken with more than a hundred families since, most of them at the point in a pet's life where you meet them.
If any of this brings a particular client to mind, the one you think would have loved this option, get in touch and Dr Pellay will walk you through it in detail.
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