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Ideas
on cloning a human came when scientists around the world found out that
someone successfully cloned a sheep.Cloning
was assumed to be impossible in all mammals until it was achieved in
by a scientist from the UK, Dr. Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in
Roslin, Scotland. News of the experiment was communicated to the press.
"Dolly," a seven-month old sheep, was displayed to the media;
she is the first large cloned animal using DNA from another adult. Since
Dolly's conception, the Institute has successfully cloned 7 sheep of
three breeds. The technique that they developed can probably be applied
to other domesticated mammals. |
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NEWS: What happen to Dolly? The first successful living thing to be cloned.
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"Dolly the Sheep is dead - possibly the world's most famous animal was put to sleep on 14th February 2003 after developing progressive lung disease. Dolly was cloned from a dead adult sheep using frozen cells and born on 5th July 1996. There have been many reports that Dolly may have been getting old before her time, developing arthritis and possibly other problems. Scientists are waiting for the results of a post mortem to try to understand whether Dolly's latest problems were linked to the cloning technique, which commonly causes severe abnormalities. The big worry is whether teams trying to clone human babies will accidentally create very sick children." by: www.globalchange.com |