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Dolly the sheep

Jul 1996 · dolly

The significance lay in the principle: a cell's specialisation is reversible. That led directly to induced pluripotent stem cells a decade later, which allow stem cells to be made from a skin sample without embryos — and so sidestep much of the ethical dispute cloning itself provoked. Dolly also prompted the first national bans on human cloning.

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