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Dolly is a clone — and no longer alone

Nature volume 394, pages 315–316 (1998)Cite this article

After the furore that surrounded the arrival of Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from differentiated adult cells, doubts were raised that she really was a clone. Those doubts can now be set aside, and the technique has been further validated by the cloning of mice.

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Figure 1: Cloning strategies — the subject to be cloned determines the relative importance of various problems and questions related to cloning.

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