By Stephanie Bucklin, Live
Science Contributor | February 22, 2017 10:13am ET
It was 20 years ago this week
that scientists announced the first successful cloning of a mammal — the
now-famous sheep Dolly — from a cell taken from an adult animal.
The cloning
of Dolly by the team at The Roslin Institute, at the University of
Edinburgh in Scotland, paved the way for researchers to try cloning a number of
other mammals. Prior to Dolly, scientists had been able to clone mammals only
by splitting growing embryos.
Since the announcement of Dolly's
birth, dozens of other species have been cloned from adult body cells,
including many mammals. Here are eight of the mammals that have been cloned in
this manner since Dolly:
It was 20 years ago this week
that scientists announced the first successful cloning of a mammal — the
now-famous sheep Dolly — from a cell taken from an adult animal. [Full
story: 20 Years After Dolly the Sheep, What Have We Learned About Cloning?]
The cloning
of Dolly by the team at The Roslin Institute, at the University of
Edinburgh in Scotland, paved the way for researchers to try cloning a number of
other mammals. Prior to Dolly, scientists had been able to clone mammals only
by splitting growing embryos.
Since the announcement of Dolly's
birth, dozens of other species have been cloned from adult body cells,
including many mammals. Here are eight of the mammals that have been cloned in
this manner since Dolly:
In 2000, PPL Therapeutics, the
same company that worked with The Roslin Institute to clone Dolly the sheep,
announced that it had cloned five female piglets from adult pig cells. The
piglets were named Millie, Christa, Carrel, Dotcom and Alexis. The findings
were published in a 2000
paper in the journal Nature.
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