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