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Dolly: the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell

2003-02-14 Roslin Institute, Scotland / Edinburgh
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Dolly was born at the Roslin Institute in 1996 as the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, and was euthanised in 2003.

Roslin Institute, Scotland / Edinburgh

Public-source image of Dolly, Wikimedia Commons image saved locally.
Public-source image of Dolly, Wikimedia Commons image saved locally.

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Dolly proved that a mammal could be cloned from an adult somatic cell, changing biological science.

The archive records her scientific role and her individual life, illness, death and later museum display.

Dolly is archived because scientific landmarks are also animal lives.

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