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The Roslin Institute is a government research institute at, Roslin
Roslin, Midlothian

Roslin is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, to the south of the Scottish capital city Edinburgh. It is situated approximately 12 miles from Edinburgh Airport....
, a village in Midlothian
Midlothian

Midlothian is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders the Scottish Borders, East Lothian and the City of Edinburgh council areas....
, Scotland
Scotland

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, that is sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is a UK Research Council and non-departmental public body supporting several science research institutes and university research departments in the United Kingdom....
.

In 1996 Sir Ian Wilmut
Ian Wilmut

Sir Ian Wilmut, Order of the British Empire is an England embryologist and is currently one of the leaders of the Queen's Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh....
, Keith Campbell
Keith Campbell (biologist)

Biologist Professor Keith H. S. Campbell is an England biologist best known for being credited with the main role in the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finn Dorset lamb named Dolly the sheep, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells....
 and their colleagues created Dolly the sheep
Dolly the Sheep

Dolly was a Domestic sheep , remarkable in being the first mammal to be cloning from an adult somatic cell cell , using the process of nuclear transfer....
, the first mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
 to be cloned from an adult cell, at the institute. A year later Polly and Molly
Polly and Molly

Polly and Molly , two Domestic sheep, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloning from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time....
 were cloned, both sheep contained a human gene.

In 2007 a Roslin team developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.

The Roslin Institute has been granted permission by Midlothian council to expand, which has caused anger among locals and protesters due to a planned road linking two buildings through an SSSI area.






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The Roslin Institute is a government research institute at, Roslin
Roslin, Midlothian

Roslin is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, to the south of the Scottish capital city Edinburgh. It is situated approximately 12 miles from Edinburgh Airport....
, a village in Midlothian
Midlothian

Midlothian is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders the Scottish Borders, East Lothian and the City of Edinburgh council areas....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, that is sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is a UK Research Council and non-departmental public body supporting several science research institutes and university research departments in the United Kingdom....
.

In 1996 Sir Ian Wilmut
Ian Wilmut

Sir Ian Wilmut, Order of the British Empire is an England embryologist and is currently one of the leaders of the Queen's Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh....
, Keith Campbell
Keith Campbell (biologist)

Biologist Professor Keith H. S. Campbell is an England biologist best known for being credited with the main role in the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finn Dorset lamb named Dolly the sheep, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells....
 and their colleagues created Dolly the sheep
Dolly the Sheep

Dolly was a Domestic sheep , remarkable in being the first mammal to be cloning from an adult somatic cell cell , using the process of nuclear transfer....
, the first mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
 to be cloned from an adult cell, at the institute. A year later Polly and Molly
Polly and Molly

Polly and Molly , two Domestic sheep, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloning from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time....
 were cloned, both sheep contained a human gene.

In 2007 a Roslin team developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.

The Roslin Institute has been granted permission by Midlothian council to expand, which has caused anger among locals and protesters due to a planned road linking two buildings through an SSSI area. An anti-bypass site has existed in Bilston Glen for the last six and a half years.

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