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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1998-12-14  |  1.7 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  1 minute, 19 seconds
Transcription: In 1997, some boffins in Scotland announced that they'd managed to clone, that's create a genetically identical copy of, a sheep. They called the clone sheep Dolly. Hmm, why bother cloning a sheep? Isn't that just a tiny bit sad? Well, it was all to do with experiments in genetic engineering, creating better sheep or cows that can produce more milk, resist diseases better, that sort of thing. Genetic engineering is the new cutting edge It's an exciting area. What the boffins did was take cells from a sheep embryo and put them into sheep eggs that had already had their genes removed. So the emb ...