This week is enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research, old talk?

Lots of people say, oh yes, we love interdisciplinary research. We want to support it,

but the interdisciplinary projects are not getting funded.

And 20 years on, what was the impact of Dolly the sheep's birth on biology?

I don't think she signified a revolution.

I wouldn't either would I say she's just a sheep.

Plus, hundreds of social scientists get together to synthesize research on war, terrorism,

inequality and lots of other thorny topics.

Wish them luck.

This is the nature podcast for June the 30th, 2016.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Kerry Smith.

Nearly 20 years ago, on the 5th of July, 1996, Dolly the Sheep was born, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

Seven months later, her scientist parents announced her to the world.

Ewan Calloway looks back over the media storm that ensued and considers Dolly's legacy.

Monday, February the 24th, 1997.

The most talked-about news story of the day came from a farm in Scotland because Dolly the sheep was making her media debut. Hello, Dolly. Dolly is the name of the first mammal, yes, a sheep ever to be born as the result of cloning.

Dolly was by this point a healthy seven-month-old sheep. She was made when the nucleus of an adult cell was fused with an egg cell whose own nucleus had been removed.

It was a remarkable scientific feat.

But the media storm she provoked wasn't really about her.

Humans are more self-centered than that.

It was about us.

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