The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

While some feared Dolly’s early death meant that cloned animals would suffer from disease leading to early death, The Roslin Institute cloned four other sheep from the same line. These four ...

The finding “is important . . . because Dolly was under the magnifying glass for a very long time,” Dietrich Egli, a developmental cell biologist at Columbia University who was not involved in the ...

Geron Corp (Menlo Park, CA) announced the issuance of two patents by the UK Patent Office covering the nuclear transfer technology used to produce Dolly the sheep, the first animal cloned from an ...

February 22 saw a big scientific breakthrough with the successful cloning of a mammal for the first time in 1997. Dolly was ...

Dolly died of an infection at 7 years old, which is considered young for a sheep. She was reported to show signs of severe arthritis in her knees at the time of her death, which raised suspicion ...

but they did disclose that the animal was produced by somatic cell cloning in Qinghai Province. This is the same technique that was used to produce the famed Scottish sheep Dolly. Somatic cell ...

The study by Professor Ian Wilmut, leader of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep, suggests the animals are all genetically or physically abnormal, even if they appear healthy. Problems that have ...

You might remember the buzz over cloning when Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal cloned ... from just a small tissue sample to clone these animals. You do, however, need at least 50,000 dollars.