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Sathana Dushyanthen, Academic Specialist & Senior Lecturer in Cancer Sciences & Digital Health | Superstar of STEM | Science Communicator, The University of Melbourne

30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now?

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 woolly mammoth. But the reality of cloning has turned out to be much more complicated.

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