1. Lest we forget, it was Dolly, the cloned sheep produced in Scotland a year ago, that got it all started, this brave ewe world. 2. Polly and Molly were cloned from cells that had been genetically modified to cause the sheep to produce a blood-clotting protein in their milk. 3. The adult cloned sheep would produce the proteins in their milk, where they could be easily harvested. 4. The technology was still rough, and the sheep could only produce a tiny amount of the drug. 5. They also asserted that the USDA was merely working to protect domestic farmers, whose sheep produce about one-tenth the milk of the Belgian sheep. 6. The adult sheep produce wool that Mary Hill spins into yarn on a century-old spinning wheel. |