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 ...

She was revealed to the world in 1996 as the first mammal ever to be cloned from another individual’s body cell. In Dolly’s case, that was a single mammary gland cell from an adult sheep.

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 ...

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 ...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, has died at 79. The University of Edinburgh, where he served as a professor before his 2012 retirement ...

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 ...

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 after a long ...