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... At the Roslin Institute, scientists replaced the nucleus of the egg cell with the nucleus from the parent cell
- in Dollys case, an udder cellthe egg cell reprogrammed the donated DNA contained within its new nucleus, and Dolly was the result. ...
Dolly was born on 5 July 1996, and her birth was announced in early 1997.
*Dolly was not even the first clone, but she was the most famous. ...
*Dolly a bovid ruminant of Finn Dorset extraction, died Feb. ... But since she was the worlds first mammalian clone, her obituary bears repeating. ...
In truth, Dolly (the sheep) was born eight months earlier, on the fifth of July in 1996
Wilmuts first 277 attempts at somatic nuclear cell transfer with sheep failed.
Cloning advocates lauded Dollys birth, predicting it would lead to human clones
Since Dolly, cows, pigs, mice, goats and one cat have been cloned
Last year, her doctors announced that she had developed arthritis.
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