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It's been 30 years since Dolly the sheep was born—where is cloning technology now? (phys.org)

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When Dolly the sheep—the first cloned mammal—was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history. Her arrival sparked predictions of a sci-fi future filled with cloned pets, cloned humans and even resurrected extinct animals like the wooly mammoth. But the reality of cloning has turned out to be much more complicated.

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[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

All I'm hearing is "it was too expensive and doesn't have enough paying customers, so we shelved it."