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 ...

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 ...

PPL Therapeutics (Edinburgh, UK), the company that, along with the Roslin Institute, cloned Dolly the sheep, announced on March 14 that it had created the first pigs cloned from adult cells.

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 ...

The study by Professor Ian Wilmut, leader of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep, suggests the animals are all genetically or physically abnormal, even if they appear healthy. Problems that have ...

China has claimed to have cloned two Tibetan goats using the same technique used to create Dolly the Sheep. A video from the state-owned news channel China Central Television said the first goat ...

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

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, ...

Ian Wilmut, best known for leading the team that cloned Dolly, earned his PhD in 1971 for research that included work that led to the birth of Frosty, the first calf born from a frozen embryo. Now a ...