Opened in 2017, the Roslin Innovati-on Center laboratories serve as a space for bioscience animal research at the University of Edinburgh's Easter Bush Campus. The new laboratories, which are spread over three floors in both the north and south blocks of the complex, house 285 workstations in their open-plan design, with furniture made from Trespa® TopLab®.

Dolly was born in 1996 as part of a series of experiments by scientists at the Roslin Institute, near the Roslin Innovation Center on the Easter Bush Campus. Dolly - who was named after country singer Dolly Parton - was cloned from a cell taken from the mammary gland of a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell from a Scottish Blackface sheep.

Her white face was one of the first signs that she was a clone. If she had been genetically related to the surrogate mother, the sheep would have had a black face. Dolly was not the first cloned mammal, but it was the first to be created from an adult cell and not from embryonic and fetal cells. Dolly proved that already specified adult cells - such as brain or liver cells - could be used to create an exact copy of the animal from which they originated. Dolly's creation has triggered a worldwide debate about how far science can go, but has also initiated new stem cell research.