Soon after giving birth to the triplets, The institute suffered an outbreak of a virus called Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV), which causes lung cancer in sheep. Dolly was one of those infected.

In 1997 Dolly the sheep was introduced to the world by biologists ... Not only cells: We may soon be able to have our own organs grown in a nonhuman host, ready to be transplanted when needed.

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 ...

Dolly, the sheep whose birth six years ago focused the world on the promise and dangers of cloning, has died in Scotland. Her creators at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh said Friday they ...

Dolly the Sheep made biotech history in 1996 when she ... were somehow related to animal cloning. And in fact, it was soon taken for granted that a consequence of cloning was an early grave.

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 ...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the cloning of Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of ... and scientists soon began inducing stem cells to grow into a vast array of tissue types — driving ...

Creating Dolly required a combination of genome manipulation ... that anyone with a good high school-level biology lab would soon be able to clone human beings to create less-than-human soldiers ...

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 ...

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 ...