Clones: Hello, again, Dolly

Print section Print Rubric:  What happened after Dolly was revealed to the world 20 years ago as the first animal clone—and what didn’t Print Headline:  The sheep of things to come Print Fly Title:  Cloning UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Gene editing, clones and the science of making babies Fly Title:  Clones Main image:  20170218_FBD001_3.jpg IN THE summer of 1996 Karen Mycock, a cell biologist, was attending a wedding in the Scottish highlands. Returning to her hotel to change her hat, she found a fax pushed under her door. It said: “She’s been born and she has a white face and furry legs.” An unusual birth announcement; an unusual birth. In February Ms Mycock (now Mrs Walker), who worked at the Roslin Institute, an animal-research centre near Edinburgh, had passed a tiny jolt of electricity through two sheep cells in a dish. One was an egg cell ...
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