ABSTRACT
The ‘this time,’ referred to in the Clinton commissioned NBAC report, is now – a now that began immediately after the February 1997 birth of Dolly. ‘Dolly’ is the sheep cloned from the udder cells of a six-year-old ewe in Edinburgh by a littleknown scientist, laboring in a little-known laboratory. Ian Wilmut injected the nucleus from a frozen udder cell into an enucleated egg, called a ‘bereft egg,’ of another ewe, generating an embryo that was then inserted into a third ewe who brought the embryo to term. The embryo, and resultant lamb, was the exact replica of the embryo and resultant lamb that formed the first Dolly. It was Dolly, again. Or was it? The first Dolly was unnamed and indeed was dead (in fact eaten) before the clone Dolly was even . . . re-conceived. The clone Dolly was named, instead, for yet a fourth female, the performer Dolly Parton, who ‘was also known,’ said Wilmut, strangely using the past tense, ‘for her mammaries.’3
