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Scientists from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh have helped crack the sheep's genetic code. The team was part of an international sheep genome research consortium that sequenced the complete genetic makeup of the Texel sheep, the same breed of sheep seen in the photo. Their findings reveal that the sheep became a separate species from the goats 4 million years ago. Photo: Kay Aitchison, Royal Veterinary School, University of Edinburgh.

The sheep genome is deciphered; Separated from the goat 4 million years ago

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Binimino Perlagrasso - hen and chicks. A 19th century painting by a painter who died in 1902 and is therefore in the public domain. From Wikimedia

A chicken or a futuristic drug factory

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Why not connect the research in animals and humans?

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The Roslin Institute has stopped developing pigs for transplantation

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