Cloning of Dolly

On July 5th, 1996, Ian Wilmut and his team from the Roslin Institute of Scotland cloned a sheep. It was Dolly who was the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell. Her birth was kept a secret, for if the news had been leaked out then it would have led to debates upon the ethics of the procedure. Dolly gave birth to six lambs during her lifetime. She later died at the age of six. Her cloning was a breakthrough and led to many such experiments along with laws forbidding to cloning of man.