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June 18, 1981: Vaccine Puts Best Foot-and-Mouth Forward

1981: The U.S. government announces a new vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease. It’s welcomed by farmers, but would likely have become a historical footnote were it not for a technological caveat: The...

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April 21, 1987: Feds OK Patents for New Life Forms

1987: The U.S. Patent and Trademark office announces it will begin accepting patent applications for animals. A year later, Harvard University was awarded the first such patent — the Oncomouse, a mouse...

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Feb. 22, 1997: Hello, Dolly!

1997: The world learns of the existence of Dolly the sheep, the world’s first successfully cloned mammal. Dolly was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Researchers used somatic-cell nuclear...

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