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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.
Jun 5, 2024 · Dolly, female Finn Dorset sheep that lived from 1996 to 2003, the first clone of an adult mammal, produced by British developmental biologist Ian Wilmut and colleagues of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
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.
Jun 5, 2012 · Dolly is the name of a sheep that has the honor of being the first mammal to be cloned by a group of scientists in Scotland. Dolly was born July 5th, 1996 and she passed away in 2003. She lived for 6 and a half years, as a normal, active ewe.
Jul 5, 1996 · Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the birth of Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal to be created from an adult cell. Dolly was born on 5 July 1996 at the Roslin Institute, Scotland of a Scottish Blackface surrogate mother. She died on 14 February 2003.
Sep 6, 2017 · Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell and the world's most famous sheep, was born 5 July 1996 at the Roslin Institute.
Feb 17, 2017 · It’s been 20 years since scientists in Scotland told the world about Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult body cell. What was special about Dolly is that her ...
Jun 29, 2016 · From incubation in a bra to an afterlife under glass, how a cloned sheep attained celebrity status. Credit: Jeff J. Mitchell/Reuters. Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was born...
Sep 11, 2023 · One of the creators of the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79. Prof Sir Ian Wilmut's work, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, laid the foundations for...
Jul 4, 2016 · Dolly was created from DNA taken from a cell taken from an sheep. The technique involved putting the DNA into an empty eggshell and then zapping it with electricity. This created an embryo.
