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  2. Jul 4, 2016 · Science correspondent, BBC News. The birth of Dolly the sheep seemed one of those moments in scientific research that would change the world forever. The cloning of the first animal from an adult...

  3. Jun 5, 2024 · Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in 1996 by fusing the nucleus from a mammary-gland cell of a Finn Dorset ewe into an enucleated egg cell taken from a Scottish Blackface ewe. Carried to term in the womb of another Scottish Blackface ewe, Dolly was a genetic copy of the Finn Dorset ewe.

  4. Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland .

  5. Feb 23, 2024 · After Dolly gave birth to her last lambs in September 2000, it was discovered that she had become infected by a virus called Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV), which causes lung cancer in sheep. Other sheep at the Roslin Institute had also been infected with JSRV in the same outbreak.

  6. Dolly was created by replacing the nucleus of an egg cell with an ordinary cell from a donor parent. She was the genetically identical offspring to the sheep which provided that cell.

  7. Jun 29, 2016 · Reporter Ewen Callaway looks back at Dolly the sheep’s legacy, 20 years after her birth. Walker and Ritchie were part of a project at the Roslin Institute and spin-off PPL Therapeutics, aiming...

  8. Nov 23, 2021 · The story, when it broke, caused a moral panic to sweep the world. But how did it happen? Who was behind it? What was the science? And, ultimately, what is Dolly’s legacy today? Show less

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