On a small Scottish farm, a handful of the world's best genetic scientists worked in secret to crack the holy grail of life: cloning. The story, when it broke, caused a moral panic to sweep the world.

Concerns that Dolly the cloned sheep suffered from early-onset arthritis were unfounded, a study suggests. In fact, wear-and-tear in her joints was similar to that of other sheep of her age ...

One of the creators of the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79. Prof Sir Ian Wilmut's work, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, laid the foundations for stem ...

The science has existed functionally since the '90s, when Scottish geneticists created a sheep named Dolly, and has since ...

She said she was ‘flattered’ scientists at Edinburgh University chose to name Dolly the Sheep as a tribute to her. The ewe ...

Kirsty Wark explores the 1970s and early 1980s, an era of shops, pop, new towns and oil.

So Polly could be the first of many lines of transgenic sheep — and, as with Dolly, the crowds will undoubtedly flock to see her.

Geron Corp (Menlo Park, CA) announced the issuance of two patents by the UK Patent Office covering the nuclear transfer technology used to produce Dolly the sheep, the first animal cloned from an ...