Dolly the sheep celebrates 30 years

Thirty years ago, Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal ever to be created from an adult cell, was born. The work was done at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, where Ian Wilmut led a team whose insights were crucial to making the experiments - that were inspired by science carried out on tadpoles almost a century previously - come to fruition. But the objective, when the work Thirty years ago, Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal ever to be created from an adult cell, was born. The work was done at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, where Ian Wilmut led a team whose insights were crucial to making the experiments come to f... [7012 chars]