In Re Roslin Institute (Edinburgh) In Re Roslin Institute (Edinburgh) In re Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), 750 F.3d 1333 (Fed. Cir. 2014), is a 2014 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejecting a patent for a cloned sheep known as "Dolly the Sheep"— the first mammal ever cloned from an adult somatic cell. Dolly was cloned in 1996 by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh Scotland. BBC News and Scientific American called Dolly "the world's most famous sheep," The cloning method Campbell and Wilmut used to create Dolly constituted a
Mammal species included 96 recently extinct. The word "[[:wikt:mammal|mammal]]" is modern, from the scientific name "Mammalia" coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, derived from the [[Latin language|Latin]] "[[wikt:mamma#Latin|mamma]]" ("teat, pap"). In an influential 1988 paper, Timothy Rowe defined Mammalia [[Phylogenetics|phylogenetically]] as the [[crown group]] of mammals, the [[clade]] consisting of the [[most recent common ancestor]] of living [[monotreme]]s ([[echidna]]s and [[platypus]]es) and [[theria]]n mammals ([[marsupial]]s and [[placental]]s) and all descendants of that ancestor. Since this ancestor lived in the [[Jurassic]] period, Rowe's definition excludes all animals from the earlier [[Triassic]], despite the fact that Triassic fossils in the [[Haramiyida]] have been