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Kary B. Mullis develops the
polymerase chain reaction
technique for rapid DNA
synthesis.

Steen Willadsen
clones sheep from
embryo cells.
Steen Willadsen joins Grenada
Genetics to commercially clone cattle.

Human Genome Project begins
Wilmut and Campbell
clone sheep from
differentiated cells.
Dolly, the first animal
cloned from adult cells,
is born.
Richard Seed
announces his
plans to clone
a human.

Teruhiko Wakayama
creates three
generations of
genetically identical
cloned mice.
  Steen Willadsen clones cattle from differentiated cells.  

Solter and McGrath fuse a mouse embryo
cell with an egg without a nucleus, but fail
to clone using their technique.
First, Prather, and Eyestone clone a cow from embryo cells.   President Bill Clinton
proposes a five year
moratorium on cloning.

Wilmut and Campbell
create Polly, a cloned
sheep with an
inserted human gene.