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The sheep that changed cloning forever

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Dolly the sheep completely altered biology by proving that a fully differentiated adult cell could be artificially reset to create a perfect genetic duplicate. This shattered previous assumptions about cellular permanence and instantly sparked decades of widespread sci-fi cloning paranoia.

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