the extent to which this polo-obsessed nation has already fundamentally transformed the sport and the nature of horse breeding was evident on the field at the Argentine Open in Palermo in late November. As the players and the clones watched a video montage memorializing the late original champion mare, her name flashed across the screen.

“Dolfina Cuartetera,” it read. “3 February 2001 — ∞.”

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    11 months ago

    Didn’t Dolly suffer from premature aging due to her telomeres? The article seems to imply that using stem cells somehow fixed this, but how?

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      11 months ago

      Dolly died due to a lung condition. Currently no one linked her death or aging to being a clone.

      Similar diseases were shown in other members of the flock, and it was most likely due to being kept indoors for research and security reasons.