What has science learned from the first cloning? It was said the sheep aged faster than the natural-born sheep. And, the cloned sheep suffered from chronic breathing problems. So, what
have the scientists learned from this? Will they work to improve the quality of life for their next subject, or simply go on to the next cloning just for all the thrill and glory? - Jinx
Well, which scientists are you refering to? Are you wanting to know what the scientists who focus on cloning are going to do? Or all the scientists?
I’ll just list a few things that are probably going to happen or have happened to dolly.
Medical scientists will looks to see WHICH genes or what the reason for increased aging were. They will study this and see if there is any way to reverse this and double the age of an organism.
Those specifically interested in cloning will study this to try and make a more “nature correct” version. And some will just do it for the glory. Funny how a lot of explorers helped to kill off entire civilizations in the Americas just for the glory and the general public doesn’t attack them…
If the “mistake” is found. Some lab animals will be engineered to age faster so that certain experiments can be done in less time.
Well, thats 3 just off the top of my head. Anyone else know what they can do with the non-llamma dolly’s corpse? Besides a scientific luncheon.
Marduk, I am just asking this additional question out of curiousity: Why a sheep? Why wasn’t a mouse, or other rodent, the first animal to be cloned? Was a sheep perhaps easier to clone as oppsoed to many other animal candidates for some reason? - Jinx
I believe it was because the guys doing the cloning could obtain and work with a sheep more easily. Being that I hear you can’t go 5 feet without stepping on a sheep in Scotland.
What now? Looks like someone’s having mutton this weekend 
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What now? She’s going to be stuffed and put in the museum of Scotland (true).
One report I heard said that sheep that live all their lives insdoors are more prone to the kind of lung infections that took Dolly down. So the fact that she lived only half a normal life is not necessarily solely from her being cloned. More research will have to be done. But remember that there are many other cloned sheep in the world to study.
Dolly was not the first animal to be cloned.
She was not the first mammal to be cloned.
She was not the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell.
She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.
Dolly was cloned from a mammary cells. Before, Dolly, it was believed that even though the genetic code was contained in all cells, a cell that had already specialized could not be used to create a clone. Dolly completely changed this theory and scientists are still trying to figure out why.
It is not known if Dolly’s death was connected to her being a clone or not. What about other scientists is a question that can only be answered after the fact.
New Scientist thinks it may have to do with a clone’s shortened telomeres.
Did Dolly age faster and die of old age, or did she die of the breathing problem?
Doesn’t this have something to do with telomeres?
Something like since Dolly was cloned from an adult cell and that since the telomeres in that cell were “older”, even though she was a baby, she would still have “old sheep” problems?
What ever happened to Dolly the sheep?
Dolly was a clone, right?
What ever happened to Dolly the sheep?
New Scientist also believed in the existence of the “blitzkrieg server computer virus”, which has the power to destroy (as in PHYSICALLY destroy) a computer that is not even turned on–http://vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=186&page=4.
The sheep Dolly was cloned from died at the age of three. Dolly died at the age of six, for what it’s worth.
Just an observation: sheep truly are stupid. Having been around other livestock all my life (horses, pigs, cattle), I have recently gotten involved with sheep. To my complete disbelief, they will just die. They don’t have any will to live. It is truly bizarre what some of these animals are like.
I believe Dolly was put down, so she technically died of lethal injection.