If you were old enough to watch the news or read the paper back in the late 1990s, you very likely remember Dolly, the cloned sheep. Born in 1996, the researchers responsible for cloning her kept ...

The heirs of Dolly the sheep are enjoying a healthy old age, proving cloned animals can live normal lives and offering reassurance to scientists hoping to use cloned cells in medicine.

In 1997, scientists successfully cloned a sheep and named the animal Dolly after country legend Dolly Parton — for a very specific reason. The "Jolene" singer, 78, spoke to The Guardian for a ...

This was in response to a question about Dolly, the sheep who became the 20th century’s most famous ungulate in 1997 when the public found out that she was born a clone. The sheep was named ...

LONDON (AP) _ Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, has developed arthritis at a relatively early age, renewing debate about whether cloned animals are susceptible to premature aging and ...

LONDON (AP) -- The British government on Tuesday gave the creator of Dolly the Sheep a license to clone human embryos for medical research.

LONDON -- Dolly the cloned sheep was put to death Friday, after premature aging and disease marred her short existence and raised questions about the practicality of copying life. The decision to ...

A Finn-Dorset ewe named Dolly became an international phenomenon in 1996 when she became the first mammal to be successfully cloned. The ability to clone mammals sparked discussions about the ...

LONDON -- The scientist who attracted the world's attention by cloning Dolly the sheep is about to take another major step for medical research: cloning human embryos and extracting stem cells to ...

For the first time, scientists say they created cloned primates using the same complicated cloning technique that made Dolly the sheep in 1996.

LONDON - The world's first cloned sheep has developed arthritis at the relatively early age of 5½ years, scientists said Friday, stirring debate that the current cloning procedures might be flawed.