Science: Cloning
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| Birthname | Dolly the Sheep | ||
| born on | 5 July 1996 at 16:30 (= 4:30 PM ) | ||
| Place | Edinburgh, Scotland, 55n57, 3w13 | ||
| Timezone | GDT h1e (is daylight saving time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   13°52'   16°29 Asc. 11°41'
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Biography
Scottish sheep, the first mammal to be manufactured by science, a ewe who was named Dolly. She was cloned from a single adult cell by Keith Campbell and Ian Wilmut in their lab at Mid-Lothian. Campbell figured in February 1996 that they could harvest an inactive cell from a sheep that would contain all the tracks to recreate a duplicate. They did not announce their success until 3/01/1997, when they introduced the healthy full-grown result of their tests.
Since this time, many more experiments on cloning have been conducted. Dolly was fertile, and had a female offspring on 4/20/1998, 4:00 AM (news).
Dolly died at age six, about half the expected life span of a sheep, on 2/14/2003. After premature aging and a degenerative lung disease, she was put down and her lab work dedicated to further research on this impressive experiment.
Source Notes
LMR quotes news: the New York Times gave 4:00 PM. Sally Davis quotes "The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead" Penguin Books, 1997, for 5:00 PM. It's not likely that anyone was checking their watch and the time would be approximate. The location was Mid-Lothian, Scotland, seven miles from Edinburgh, a town where sheep outnumber people.
Categories
- Mundane : Medical/Science : Technology (Medical: first cloning: Dolly)
