Dolly (sheep)

Dolly (sheep)

Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.^[3] She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland, the United Kingdom. The funding for Dolly's cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture.^[4] She was born on 5 July 1996 and died from a progressive lung disease 5 months before her seventh birthday.^[1] She has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.^[5][6]

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