FIRST CLONED ANIMAL - DOLLY THE EWE

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1997 First cloned animal is announced
Scientists in Scotland reveal the existence of Dolly the sheep, the first animal successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell. Created from a mammary cell, she's named after Dolly Parton.

How Dolly was cloned
Animal cloning from an adult cell is much more difficult than from an embryonic cell. So when scientists working at the Roslin Institute in Scotland produced Dolly, the only lamb born from 277 attempts, it was a major news story around the world.

To produce Dolly, scientists used an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep. They had to find a way to 'reprogram' the udder cells - to keep them alive but stop them growing – which they achieved by altering the growth medium (the ‘soup’ in which the cells were kept alive). Then they injected the cell into an unfertilized egg cell which had had its nucleus removed, and made the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. The unfertilized egg cell came from a Scottish Blackface ewe. When the research team had managed to fuse the nucleus from the adult white sheep cell with the egg cell from the black-faced sheep, they needed to make sure that the resulting cell would develop into an embryo. They cultured it for six or seven days to see if it divided and developed normally, before implanting it into a surrogate mother, another Scottish Blackface ewe. Dolly had a white face.

From 277 cell fusions, 29 early embryos developed and were implanted into 13 surrogate mothers. But only one pregnancy went to full term, and the 6.6 kg Finn Dorset lamb 6LLS (alias Dolly) was born after 148 days.
What happened to Dolly?

Dolly and her lamb, Bonnie The Roslin institute
Dolly lived a pampered existence at the Roslin Institute. She mated and produced normal offspring in the normal way, showing that such cloned animals can reproduce. Born on 5 July 1996, she was euthanized on 14 February 2003, aged six and a half. Sheep can live to age 11 or 12, but Dolly suffered from arthritis in a hind leg joint and from sheep pulmonary adenomatosis, a virus-induced lung tumor that is common among sheep which are raised indoors.
http://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical-advances/timeline/cloning-dolly-the-sheep/

aspca4ever wrote:

ON THIS DAY >>>
1997 First cloned animal is announced
Scientists in Scotland reveal the existence of Dolly the sheep, the first animal successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell. Created from a mammary cell, she's named after Dolly Parton.

How Dolly was cloned
Animal cloning from an adult cell is much more difficult than from an embryonic cell. So when scientists working at the Roslin Institute in Scotland produced Dolly, the only lamb born from 277 attempts, it was a major news story around the world.

To produce Dolly, scientists used an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep. They had to find a way to 'reprogram' the udder cells - to keep them  alive but stop them growing – which they achieved by altering the growth medium (the ‘soup’ in which the cells were kept alive). Then they injected the cell into an unfertilized egg cell which had had its nucleus removed, and made the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. The unfertilized egg cell came from a Scottish Blackface ewe. When the research team had managed to fuse the nucleus from the adult white sheep cell with the egg cell from the black-faced sheep, they needed to make sure that the resulting cell would develop into an embryo. They cultured it for six or seven days to see if it divided and developed normally, before implanting it into a surrogate mother, another Scottish Blackface ewe. Dolly had a white face.

From 277 cell fusions, 29 early embryos developed and were implanted into 13 surrogate mothers. But only one pregnancy went to full term, and the 6.6 kg Finn Dorset lamb 6LLS (alias Dolly) was born after 148 days.
What happened to Dolly?

Dolly and her lamb, Bonnie The Roslin institute
Dolly lived a pampered existence at the Roslin Institute. She mated and produced normal offspring in the normal way, showing that such cloned animals can reproduce. Born on 5 July 1996, she was euthanized on 14 February 2003, aged six and a half. Sheep can live to age 11 or 12, but Dolly suffered from arthritis in a hind leg joint and from sheep pulmonary adenomatosis, a virus-induced lung tumor that is common among sheep which are raised indoors.
http://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical-advances/timeline/cloning-dolly-the-sheep/

And despite all of the HYSTERIA DRIVEN by the Religious Fanatics = this is Satan's Work; we've made such marvelous inroads into cloning human body parts to aide man kind and provide replacement parts to wounded soldiers/accident victims and just malformed physical birth defects!  

It's been such a beneficial study and technically advanced our medical and social needs --- despite all of those religious wing nuts that screamed it's the 'DOOMS DAY SCENARIO' and we're all going to HELL!    

Raggamuffin wrote:Oh, another anti-religion thread. It's a pity it wasn't started with a more scientific slant.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Oh, another anti-religion thread. It's a pity it wasn't started with a more scientific slant.

So now a thread criticizing fanatics and fundamentalists is somehow critical of all religious belief?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Oh, another anti-religion thread. It's a pity it wasn't started with a more scientific slant.

So now a thread criticizing fanatics and fundamentalists is somehow critical of all religious belief?

It is if it's supposed to be about cloning. Any excuse on here eh?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

It is if it's supposed to be about cloning. Any excuse on here eh?

So we can talk about cloning, but not the hysterical reaction by religious fanatics ... to cloning?

Raggamuffin wrote:Not everyone who is against cloning is a religious fanatic anyway.

HoratioTarr wrote:

aspca4ever wrote:

And despite all of the HYSTERIA DRIVEN by the Religious Fanatics = this is Satan's Work; we've made such marvelous inroads into cloning human body parts to aide man kind and provide replacement parts to wounded soldiers/accident victims and just malformed physical birth defects!  

It's been such a beneficial study and technically advanced our medical and social needs --- despite all of those religious wing nuts that screamed it's the 'DOOMS DAY SCENARIO' and we're all going to HELL!    

 There's something very Frankenstein about the next step up from this.   Head and brain transplants.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Not everyone who is against cloning is a religious fanatic anyway.

Yeah, but that's not what she said in the first place.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Not everyone who is against cloning is a religious fanatic anyway.

Yeah, but that's not what she said in the first place.

aspca4ever wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Yeah, but that's not what she said in the first place.

Since I've figured out the 'how to block the unworthy TROLLS'; I no longer view young 'MUFFINS' immature rants...but in this quotated reply of yours --- well, there's that mental-midget dribble

The genre for the Cloning of Dolly the EWE...might have fit many specific other topic areas; I chose to place it in here {SOCIAL ISSUES} because of the media attention supplied by the 'Religious Fanatics' that caused such a upheaval and dooms day rants'!

Did the entire religious deities go 'BUG NUTS' --- noooo, that's not what I stated   But for the hyper sensitive/momma drama's {here} and around the globe --- there's no stopping them when they become the rabid-pack-attack groupies that they love to follow!  Tsk - Tsk - Tsk...takes so little stimulation for their angst and vitriol to go into hyper drive!  

Original Quill wrote:Even though it is gratuitous, it's strange how science messin' with anything is going to provoke a religious rant.

Imagine when they hypothesized that the world was not flat.  That the sun didn't fly around the earth.  We are still struggling with the fact that humans are not the center of the universe.

Now, messin' with anything biological is contrary to god's wishes.  Religious fundamentalists even oppose birth control, fcs.

I will say that the story of Dolly awakened the world to the fact that the University of Edinburgh is the finest school of biological science, and medical school, in the world.

Medical Practices During the Renaissance
by Gillian Frederick on 9 December 2012
Transcript of Medical Practices During the Renaissance
Medical Practices During the Renaissance The bad, the ugly, and the just plain bizarre ~The Renaissance~ Occurred between the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century.
"Renaissance" means "rebirth" in French.
It was a time when there was an explosion of inspiration in the arts, science, technology, and medicine after the dark Middle Ages. Medical practices during the Renaissance were often bizarre and terrible. Many people could not see a doctor when sick and some even believed that the doctors were evil
https://prezi.com/lwi5ij8h7mlz/medical-practices-during-the-renaissance/

As the church taught that God sent illness, and that repenting would cure all evils, many people at the time believed that pilgrimage would cure them. Other theories were based upon astrology, the movement of the sun and stars.

Despite this disparate range of theories, there were many examples of good practice and advances were made. Most well trained doctors used Hippocrates teachings and diagnosis was developed, the use of Urine samples being a significant step forward. Even so, some ‘physical’ cures were administered for purely superstitious reasons: herbal remedies being prescribed as they would rid the body of evil spirits, for example.
http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/medievalmedicine.htm