Tuesday, January 23, 2007

What's in a name?


Did you know that Dolly the sheep - you know, the one that was cloned - was named after Dolly Parton? Apparently one of the stockmen who helped deliver her came to name her after the chesty country singer because Dolly was cloned from a mammary cell. One of my coworkers found this out recently and couldn't wait to tell someone. My boss's question about how my dissertation on clones and cyborgs was going gave him the perfect opportunity.

...I wonder if there's a place for Dolly in my dissertation...

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