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  1. Dolly (sheep) - Wikipedia

    • Dolly was a female Finn-Dorset sheep cloned by Scottish scientists in 1996 using nuclear transfer from a mammary gland cell. She lived six years and produced six lambs before dying of a lung disease.… See more

    Other name(s)6LLS (code name)
    SexFemale
    Born5 July 1996 · Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland
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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 Rosli… See more

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  1. Dolly | History, Impact & Legacy | Britannica

    Sep 19, 2024 · Dolly was a female sheep born in 1996 by a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which involves fusing an adult cell with an egg cell. She was the first successful clone of an adult mammal and sparked a …

  2. Dolly the Cloned Sheep at 20: How It Actually …

    Jul 5, 2016 · Dolly the cloned sheep was born 20 years ago, on July 5, 1996. Here's how TIME explained the process to readers back then.

  3. How Dolly the Sheep Sparked Debate Over Cloning | HISTORY

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  5. 20 Years after Dolly the Sheep Led the Way—Where Is …

    Jul 5, 2016 · Cloning a mammal defied the scientific dogma of its time. The success led to dire and fantastic predictions: Humans would be cloned. Diseases would be prevented. Lost children rebirthed.

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  8. How They Cloned a Sheep - AMNH

    How They Cloned a Sheep. 1. Scientists took udder cells from Dolly’s DNA mother. They let the cells multiply and then they stopped the process when they had divided enough. 2. They took an egg cell from a different sheep and …

  9. The Life of Dolly - The University of Edinburgh

    Aug 15, 2024 · Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, born in 1996 at the Roslin Institute. She lived a normal life with six lambs, but died of lung cancer in 2003 at the age of six.