My Uncle Elroy used to sell pants for 25 cents apiece.
Everyone called him Quarter Roy.
Dolly cloned sheep bornIn 1996, Dolly, a cloned sheep, was born at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland. Scientists had replaced the nucleus of an egg cell with the nucleus from a parent cell - in Dolly's case, an udder cell from a a Finn Dorset sheep. Somehow, the egg cell reprogrammed the donated DNA contained within its new nucleus, and Dolly was the result. The manipulation was done using microscopic needles, a method pioneered in human fertility treatments in the 1970s. The resulting embryo was implanted into the womb of a third, surrogate sheep. Biologist Keith Campbell is recognised as having the key role in the team's work, which was supervised by Ian Wilmut. The birth of Dolly was announced in early 1997.« |
