Morag or is that Megan?

Morag apparently. But how would you know any different? Lol

I know how odd this looks but this stuffed sheep actually represents a very important piece of scientific history. Most people assume that Dolly was the world’s first cloned mammal in 1996 and this is true to some extent. Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult stem cell, however prior to this there had been other attempts. The world’s first successful attempt in 1995, gave us the twins Morag and Megan (shown above) produced from embryo cells, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.

The cloning of the sheep did allow us to witness numerous complications of cloning, most notably the premature ageing, severe lung disease and arthritis that Dolly encountered. However the fear of cloning humans and the issues associated with it (i.e. ‘the 6th day’ style)... well there is still a while to go.

Anyhow if anyone happened to be in around the area and did want to go see the sheep, (Dolly will be joining them later on, lol), they are on display at Edinburgh’s Royal Museum. Seriously I’m interested but I am not going to travel over 200 miles to see some sheep!