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"Award-winning scientific journalist Gina Kolata ... reveals the story behind Dolly--reaching back to our earliest attempts to clone, uncovering the startling, largely unreported events that led to Dolly's birth, and exploring the mind-boggling questions that Dolly presents for our future."--Jacket.
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It's 1996. In a small scientific institute in Scotland, a team of biologists are working round the clock to create a sheep from an adult cell. On 5th July, Dolly the Sheep is born and the world's biology textbooks rewritten. This is a first-hand account from the people behind a scientific sensation. Geneticists, biologists, technicians, farmhands, and the journalists reveal exactly what happened - and explore Dolly's legacy not just in cloning, but...
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"The cloning of Dolly in 1996 from the cell of an adult sheep was a pivotal moment in history." "In this definitive account, the scientists who accomplished this stunning feat explain their hypotheses and experiments, their conclusions, and the implications of their work. Researchers have already incorporated into sheep the gene for human factor IX, a blood-clotting protein used to treat hemophilia. In the future, cultures of mammary cells may prove...
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