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Recent Examples on the Web In 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute cloned a cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish blackface sheep, and the result was Dolly. — Washington Post, 21 May 2021 This work is from observational studies in people and the ability of these chemicals to cause mammary gland tumors in animal studies. — Linda S. Birnbaum And Margaret L. Kripke, STAT, 21 Nov. 2020 Mammals are a class of animals so named because their young are kept alive with milk produced by the mammary glands of the females. — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2019 Years later, after her recovery, Ramsdell decided to leave the heart behind and to start looking for asymmetry in the mammary glands of mammals. — Tim Vernimmen, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017 But her initial studies of mice proved disappointing — their left and right mammary glands didn’t seem to differ at all. — Tim Vernimmen, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017 Unfortunately, cancer in the mammary glands (similar to breast cancer in humans) can also occur in both male and female dogs. — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018 The chances of a tumor being cancerous increases with age, so pay special attention to any abnormalities in your older pup’s mammary glands. — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018 However, only about 50 percent of mammary tumors are cancerous, with a majority of these cases being carcinoma (arising from the lining of the ducts in the mammary gland), Wustefeld-Janssens said. — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018 See More

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