When Dolly the sheep was born, 20 years ago this Tuesday, few took note of the remarkable lamb. To know what was special about her, you’d have to look at her DNA: she had been cloned from a cell ...

The four sheep cloned from Dolly’s cell line did not suffer the same bad health as their sister, Dolly. Sheep live an average of 10 to 12 years, and these four — Daisy, Diana, Debbie, and ...

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 ...

Dolly the sheep made history in 1997, when the scientists who created her announced she was the first cloned mammal to survive. For a while, she was a media star with a profile almost approaching ...

In Dolly’s case, that was a single mammary gland cell from an adult sheep. According to Dr Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the cloning research team, the sheep earned her name because they ...

Jon Morgan/CBS/Getty;Getty In 1997, scientists successfully cloned a sheep and named the animal Dolly after country legend Dolly Parton — for a very specific reason. The "Jolene" singer ...

International news outlets had already started swarming at the institute for access to Wilmut and Campbell’s creation: Dolly the sheep, the world’s first mammal successfully cloned from a ...

a nod to country music legend Dolly Parton and her famously ample bosom. Much of the news reports had focused not on cloning sheep but on its potential for humans, said Alan Colman, who is now a ...

On Feb. 22, 1997, a scientific team headed by Professor Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, introduced Dolly the Cloned Sheep to the world. The misconceptions ...