Biology
- July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born.
- August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome is sequenced, the first eukaryotic genome to be fully sequenced.
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