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Why Scientists Kept the Birth of Dolly, the World's First Cloned Mammal, a Secret for Seven Months
The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise to a new era of ethical debate and experimentation