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 ...

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 ...

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 stem ...

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 ...

LONDON, UK — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died ...

LONDON — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday ...

10, leaving behind a twofold legacy. One part is groundbreaking science. Creating Dolly required a combination of genome manipulation and reproductive tools that helped launch what is sometimes ...