But new research says sheep cloned using the same method as that which created Dolly show no obvious detrimental long-term health effects. Dipti Kapadia reports.

PPL Therapeutics (Edinburgh, UK), the company that, along with the Roslin Institute, cloned Dolly the sheep, announced on March 14 that it had created the first pigs cloned from adult cells.

The death of Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell, has sparked renewed fears over the safety of cloning techniques. The Roslin Institute announced the decision was ...

The goat clones were reportedly created by somatic cell cloning which involves transferring ... genetic material needed to produce a new sheep. Dolly was derived from an egg cell from a Scottish ...

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

The finding “is important . . . because Dolly was under the magnifying glass for a very long time,” Dietrich Egli, a developmental cell biologist at Columbia University who was not involved in the ...

Dolly died of an infection at 7 years old, which is considered young for a sheep. She was reported to show signs of severe arthritis in her knees at the time of her death, which raised suspicion ...

In 1958, John Gurdon successfully cloned a frog using nuclear transfer, demonstrating that the genetic material from a differentiated cell could be reprogrammed to create an entire organism. However, ...

A similar process was used to clone a well-publicized sheep, named Dolly, in 1996 ... possible that someone could try to implant embryos created using the OHSU technique into a mother's uterus.