Byline: PAUL RECER Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Scottish scientists who cloned Dolly have now produced Molly and Polly, two lambs cloned with a human gene so their milk will contain a blood-clotting protein that can be extracted for use in treating human hemophilia.
Molly and Polly were born in July and Dr. Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in Scotland said his team should know by spring if the lambs' milk will contain useful quantifies of factor IX, a protein that helps blood to clot.
Wilmut and his team announced the cloning achievement in a report in the journal Science to be published today.
Experts say the creation of Molly and …
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