15th February 2016 by What's What Team

What makes Dolly the sheep special?

Dolly the sheep was the first cloned sheep. It was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. An adult cell from the mammary gland of a sheep was used to clone Dolly.

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