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Will cloning bring the woolly mammoth back to life?
Woolly mammoths became largely extinct about 10,000 years ago. Could they make a...
How Dolly the sheep was cloned
Overview of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). In 1996 the first clone of an adult...
Can cloning save endangered species?
Overview of the potential use of cloning in conservation of species.
Learn how somatic cell nuclear transfer is used for reproductive and therapeutic cloning
In 1996 the first clone of an adult mammal, a female sheep named Dolly, was born....
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Dolly the sheep
Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal, at the Roslin Institute, near...
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Hwang Woo Suk and Gerald Schatten
South Korean cloning and stem cell researcher Hwang Woo Suk (left) and Gerald Schatten...
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CC, the first cloned cat
The first cloned cat, named CC (or Copy Cat), was born on December 22, 2001, to her...
Photo by Larry Wadsworth/Permission of Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Dolly the sheep and her cloning
Dolly the sheep was cloned using the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)....
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