Dolly the sheep at 30: The clone that changed science (and celebrity petdom)

Dolly was born on 5 July 1996(Picture: BBC/Roslin Institute)

She may have started life in a petri dish and simply known as 6LL3, but thanks to her amazing contribution to science, Dolly the sheep went on to become one of the most famous farm animals in the world after being the first mammal ever to be cloned from adult DNA.

The little milennial lamb was born via a surrogate mother at Edinburgh University’s Roslin Institute on 5 July, 1996 – with huge implications on medicine, culture and the ethical issues around cloning. 

The team, led by Professors Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, cloned Dolly from a single m...