{"id":28292,"date":"2016-07-26T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T23:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/dolly-the-sheeps-siblings-healthy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:45","slug":"dolly-the-sheeps-siblings-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/dolly-the-sheeps-siblings-healthy","title":{"rendered":"Dolly the sheep\u2019s siblings \u2018healthy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dolly-the-sheeps-siblings-healthy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the new study, which tracked four sheep cloned from the same ewe as Dolly, found they had aged normally.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the animals did show mild \u2014 and in one case moderate \u2014 signs of osteoarthritis. But the researchers say that it was not sufficiently severe that any of the animals required treatment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dolly the sheep\u2019s \u201csiblings\u201d are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness.<\/p>\n<p>The first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell \u2014 Dolly \u2014 died at the relatively young age of 6.5 years, having suffered from osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n<p>This raised concerns that cloned animals might age more quickly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36893506\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36893506<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the new study, which tracked four sheep cloned from the same ewe as Dolly, found they had aged normally. Some of the animals did show mild \u2014 and in one case moderate \u2014 signs of osteoarthritis. But the researchers say that it was not sufficiently severe that any of the animals required treatment. Dolly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66787,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions\/66787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}