One routine skin biopsy, taken at your clinic, preserves your patient’s living cells in liquid nitrogen. For deeply attached families, it keeps hope open at the moment everything else is closing. Most simply keep the cells as a living memory of their pet.
No equipment, no training, no setup cost for your practice.
Almost every family who contacts us starts with a question about cloning. Only about 7% go through with it. The others keep the cells frozen, as a living memory of their pet and a possibility they are not ready to give up. What they want, in the days around the loss, is not to have to close the door for good.
Nothing irreversible has to be decided in the week of the loss. The choice can wait years, or never be made.
Many families describe it as an investment in hope: circumstances change, prices may fall, and the possibility stays with them.
At a moment of complete helplessness, a concrete step they can take for their animal, while there is still time.
“Today was probably one of the worst days of my life. This is the only thing that made it better.”
Catalina, United States“Thank you for your kind support at my worst moment of 2025.”
Gabor, Spain“Thank you so much for your kindness, responsiveness and genuine involvement in helping us. It means more to us than I can express.”
Irina, Russia“I thank you a thousand times for your help in our distress, which lets us hope to find again a part of the ball of fur we love so much.”
Serge and Lidiya, France“I trust you are doing a great job, I am just naturally curious and nervous as Tyson was very dear to me. Thank you very much for your time. I really appreciate it.”
Nestor, Greece“Thanks for the update and for your great professionalism throughout the process. I am really happy that everything went smoothly.”
Antonio, ItalyYou know which clients struggle most with the loss of one particular animal: the ones who ask whether anything else can be done. Cell preservation is for them, not for every family.
“Some families choose to preserve their pet’s living cells. It is a way to keep a part of them, and to keep options open for later. Would you like some information?”
That is all. If they are interested, we take it from there, including every question about cloning.
Most families have never heard of cell preservation, and those who find it on their own often find it too late. Your role is only to mention that it exists, to the clients for whom it is relevant.
From a small skin biopsy, our laboratory grows dermal fibroblasts, verifies their quality and freezes several vials in liquid nitrogen at −320 °F (−196 °C). At that temperature the cells remain alive and viable indefinitely.
DNA alone, from hair or a swab, cannot be used for anything beyond testing. Living fibroblasts keep every future option open, including cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, should the family ever choose it.
Cloning produces a genetic twin of the pet, not the same individual: memory and personality are not inherited. It is carried out by a specialist partner, only if the family decides, often years later. We answer all cloning questions directly, so your clinic never has to.
A standard veterinary procedure, with a written protocol we provide.
Devoted owners of aging or terminally ill pets, showing anticipatory grief or difficulty with end-of-life decisions.
Let them know cell preservation exists. We supply the client materials.
Express courier, arranged by the clinic or the client. Refrigerated at 35 to 39 °F, never frozen.
Cell culture, quality control, cryopreservation, storage and all client communication.
Post-mortem, the biopsy should be taken within roughly 5 days, with the body refrigerated at 35 to 39 °F (2 to 4 °C) and never frozen. Warmer conditions shorten this window sharply. For terminally ill patients, an ante-mortem biopsy gives the best cell quality.
The only procedure required from your practice. The aim is living dermal tissue, collected as cleanly as possible and kept cold, never frozen.
A short introduction for veterinary teams, which you are welcome to share with colleagues.
Families pay Bimini Pet directly for preservation. Partner practices receive a referral fee for every preserved sample, and can bill the biopsy to the family as they would any procedure.
Plus applicable sales tax.
Plus the biopsy, which you may bill to the family directly.
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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