On July 5, 1996, a Finn-Dorset sheep was born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. The sheep’s name was Dolly - and she was the first mammal ever cloned from an adult somatic cell. This is the story of Dolly - the sheep that made history.
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Sources
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-scientists-kept-the-birth-of-dolly-the-worlds-first-cloned-mammal-a-secret-for-seven-months-180986009/
https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catalogue/the-story-of-dolly-the-sheep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
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