1. The cloned lamb, named Dolly, has the exact same genes as the adult sheep from which she was cloned. 2. He found a way to take an udder cell and make it grow into a new cloned lamb. 3. As so often happens in science, the existence of the cloned lamb was a loosely kept secret. 4. But others argued that cloning a person would be far from straightforward, and maybe impossible, using the methods that produced the cloned lamb called Dolly. 5. Dolly was followed by Polly and five other lambs, the first cloned lambs made from cells modified in the laboratory to include a human gene. 6. So far, however, only a few appear to have borrowed the method that produced the famous cloned lamb, Dolly.By Richard Saltus. 7. The cloned lambs had the human gene in every cell of their body. 8. The name of that recently cloned lamb is Dolly. 9. And consider a cloned lamb named Dolly. 10. Cloned lambs Molly and Polly in Scotland have a human gene expected to make them produce a protein helpful in blood clotting called Factor IX. |