The centre became famous in 1996 for creating Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.

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Dr. Alan Colman, a member of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned mammal -- in 1997, told CNN that within 20 years stem cell therapies could be used to treat degenerative diseases such as diabetes, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease.

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Joel and Dolly Filartiga, Paraguayans living in the States, sued Americao Norberto Pena-Irala, then living in Brooklyn, who had been a police chief in Asuncion in 1976--when Joelito Filartiga, Dr Filartiga's 17-year old son, was tortured to death.

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The deal could be disclosed as soon as Tuesday and would serve as the opening bid in a coming bankruptcy-court auction for the assets, which include Dolly Madison and other brands.

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It is a technique called nuclear transfer -- the same used to create Dolly the sheep -- and until Mitalipov's research there had been skepticism over whether a primate could be cloned in the same manner.

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