The Second Creation describes the cloning of sheep, among them Dolly, whose arrival heralds “the age of biological control”. Its cover resembles a Leonardo da Vinci manuscript and as such ...

The death of Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell, has sparked renewed fears over the safety of cloning techniques. The Roslin Institute announced the decision was ...

Dolly the sheep was the world’s first cloned mammal in 1996. Her death at a comparatively young age raised concerns that cloned animals may age more quickly, or make them less healthy ...

PPL Therapeutics (Edinburgh, UK), the company that, along with the Roslin Institute, cloned Dolly the sheep, announced on ... PPL says the next stage is to create “knock-out” pigs, in which ...

The company that created Dolly the sheep is closing part of its cloning business to focus on more profitable markets, it emerged today. PPL Therapeutics has decided to shut down its stem cell ...

She said she was ‘flattered’ scientists at Edinburgh University chose to name Dolly the Sheep as a tribute to her. The ewe ...

Concerns that Dolly the cloned sheep suffered from early-onset arthritis were unfounded, a study suggests. In fact, wear-and-tear in her joints was similar to that of other sheep of her age ...

In 1958, John Gurdon successfully cloned a frog using nuclear transfer, demonstrating that the genetic material from a differentiated cell could be reprogrammed to create an entire organism. However, ...

On Tuesday scientists told the world that four clones of Dolly the sheep, known as the Nottingham Dollies, are alive and in good health. In fact, they're almost indistinguishable from non-cloned ...

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, 78, spoke to The Guardianfor a new ...

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 ...