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===Dolly=== | ===Dolly=== | ||
[[File:DollySideView-Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|Fig. 2. Dolly. Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh. Source: http://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/]] | |||
Dolly is a sheep that was cloned in Roslin Institute in Scotland in 1996 (Fig. 2.). The cell taken from a mammary gland of the six year old sheep was altered and implanted into an egg of a surrogate Scottish Blackface sheep, who, through the normal pregnancy gave a birth to a healthy offspring.12 Interestingly, Dolly was born from a somatic and not a reproductive cell, meaning, that at any time any taken cell of an adult could be reprogrammed into a reproductive stem cell. | Dolly is a sheep that was cloned in Roslin Institute in Scotland in 1996 (Fig. 2.). The cell taken from a mammary gland of the six year old sheep was altered and implanted into an egg of a surrogate Scottish Blackface sheep, who, through the normal pregnancy gave a birth to a healthy offspring.12 Interestingly, Dolly was born from a somatic and not a reproductive cell, meaning, that at any time any taken cell of an adult could be reprogrammed into a reproductive stem cell. | ||
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The idea of being able to clone a mammal from an adult cell gives an idea of cloning a human, which by now is banned by civil law in all the world. Nevertheless the research is being still done at an embryo level for gaining further scientific knowledge. The used technique – the somatic cell nuclear transfer – combined with CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique might change expectations in cloning mammals, including humans. | The idea of being able to clone a mammal from an adult cell gives an idea of cloning a human, which by now is banned by civil law in all the world. Nevertheless the research is being still done at an embryo level for gaining further scientific knowledge. The used technique – the somatic cell nuclear transfer – combined with CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique might change expectations in cloning mammals, including humans. | ||
*http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12359 | |||
*http://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html | |||
===GloFish=== | ===GloFish=== |