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SCIENCEJul 5 · 08:10 UTCWTOP DCWTOP Staff

Today in History: July 5, Dolly the sheep born in cloning breakthrough

Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, was born on July 5, 1996. On the same date in 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica.

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