This is a classic article from Â鶹´«Ã½’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
THE origins of Dolly, now the most famous sheep in the world, are still hard to believe. No one thought that it would be possible to take a cell from an adult mammal and use it to grow another, genetically identical clone. But that is how Dolly was created.
She began life as a single cell taken from the udder of her mother. The cell’s nucleus was removed, transferred into an egg from which the DNA had been removed, cultured and then implanted…
