Dolly(Sheep) and Cloning

• Dolly (July 5, 1996 - February 14, 2003), a ewe, was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.

• She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived there until her death when she was six years old.

• Her birth was announced on February 22, 1997.

• The sheep was originally code-named "6LL3".

• The name "Dolly" came from a suggestion by the stockmen who helped with her birth, in honor of Dolly Parton, because it was a mammary cell that was cloned.

• The technique that was made famous by her birth is somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which a cell is placed in a de-nucleated ovum, the two cells fuse and then develop into an embryo.

• When Dolly was cloned in 1996 from a cell taken from a six-year-old ewe, she became the center of much controversy that still exists today.