April 5, 2002
Phoenix President Provided Funds to Clone Cat
The man behind one of the country's most successful chains of for-profit universities is also the main financier of the world's first copied cat. The replicated feline -- named CC, for carbon copy -- was cloned by researchers at Texas A&M University last year, an event that was announced in February.
For almost four years, John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, has financed reproductive research on animals at Texas A&M. He became interested in the
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