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Feb
His birth meant a transcendental scientific event, becoming the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Dolly was born on July 5, 1996 at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. However, her arrival into the world was announced seven months later, on February 22, 1997, when she led a normal life in that government institute for animal science research. Its creation was the result of long work on the nuclear transfer method, a technique that consists of the fusion of enucleated ova with mammary cell nuclei. Dolly was the only lamb that resulted from 277 fusions made. Its…
