[navillusc]

Originally Posted by gemy

My guess is that they realized perhaps later than 2007, how much the dog genome and DNA testing could really advance human cancer research. Or so I have read in a number of places on the web....

Then they looked and found nobody had patented it so why not them?

Also if they successfully replicate DNA strands and morph them into cancer similar to humans, they can test out certain drug and other cancer protocols on that sequence.

...or similar.