The old Roslin Institute Traditional Cache

The old Roslin Institute was situated very close to this location, it was established in 1973 and was used until it was relocated to part of the Easter Bush campus a few miles away back in 2011.

The site was renamed to the Roslin BioCentre in 1999 but has been mostly knocked down in 2015/16 to make way for some new housing developments.

Through 1996 to 2003, Roslin BioCentre was home to Dolly, arguably the world’s most famous sheep. During 1996, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut and his research group first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a lamb named Dolly, which grew into a normal adult sheep.

Dolly remained healthy until February 2003 when an animal care worker reported that he had noted Dolly coughing. Full veterinary examinations and blood tests were conducted and a scan confirmed tumours were growing in Dolly’s lung. Dolly died on 14th February 2003.