Last week saw the 20th anniversary of a University of Edinburgh research team’s announcement of the first successful cloning of a mammal from an adult cell — Dolly the sheep.

Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose research was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep, has died, the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh said Monday. He was 79.

But she was a genetic replica of the sheep from which the single cell had been taken. Scientists were amazed at the outcome because the type of cell Dolly had been cloned from was a mammary cell.

LONDON, UK — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died ...

Schubarth sent the Marco Polo sheep’s genetic material to a lab, resulting in the creation of cloned embryos, the Justice Department said. In November 2016, 165 Marco Polo sheep embryos arrived ...

The researchers found that, unlike sheep, cattle, pigs and mice, where cloning results in a high number of foetal deformities and birth defects, humans possess an unusual genetic trait that mostly ...

Dolly was cloned using genetic material from a mammary gland cell of a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep, implanted into an egg cell from a Scottish Blackface sheep.

It’s been 20 years since scientists in Scotland told the world about Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult body cell. What was special about Dolly is that her ...

Dolly the cloned sheep was put to death Friday, after premature aging and disease marred her short existence and raised questions about the practicality of copying life. The decision to end Dolly ...

Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose research was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep, has died, the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh said Monday. He was 79.