Dossier
Dolly the Sheep
Coverage of Dolly the Sheep in the Nexus archive.
- 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.
- How Fidel Castro tried to recruit Dolly the Sheep scientist to clone the Cuban leader's favourite cow
Fidel Castro attempted to recruit the scientist responsible for cloning Dolly the Sheep to clone his favorite cow. The effort involved leveraging scientific expertise related to cloning technology.