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Cloning
Remember the sheep that was cloned called Dolly? She isn't that far-fetched as you think.
Article: Melinda Ferguson from True Love
Image: AFP
Just over a decade ago, at 5pm on 5 July 1996, in a shed in Scotland, perhaps the most miraculous development in genetics history entered the world, head and forelegs first. It was a sheep, weighing 6.6kg and her name was Dolly – the first living creature successfully cloned.

Scottish embryologist, Ian Wilmut, created Dolly out of the genetic material from an udder of a six-year-old sheep by fusing the genetic material with an egg of another sheep and so a clone was born. Dolly got her name from Dolly Parton, because as Wilmut put it, "she was best known for her mammaries!"

A number of stem cell therapies have already been highly successful in bone marrow transplants and medical researchers are making huge strides in the treatment of cancer, Parkinson's and spinal cord injuries.

Recently, replacement organs were successfully grown in a high-tech facility in North Carolina, offering a solution to the dire shortage of human harvested organs for transplant purposes.

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