Cloning seems like it has the potential to cure disabilities and diseases, and also make farming easier. With so many potential uses why is it that nothing major has happened since Dolly the sheep?
In: 1789
Dolly the Sheep [died from a virus-induced lung cancer common in sheep kept indoors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)#Death), which she was due to being an experimental animal. Several other sheep in her flock also died from the same type of cancer. Further experiments with cloned sheep have not yielded any evidence of clones suffering from advanced age-related conditions. Baseless theories to the contrary were however reported widely in the media at the time of Dolly’s death and have remained in the popular consciousness ever since. It was even accepted as a fact in biology class when I was in high school.
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