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Wilmut was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a lamb named Dolly. [18] [19] She died of a respiratory disease in 2003. In 2008 Wilmut announced that he would abandon the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer [20] by which Dolly was created in favour of an alternative technique developed by Shinya Yamanaka.
Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday after a long ...
Ian Wilmut, 79. The cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996. Sept. 9. Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 95. The controversial South African politician and ...
Dolly was cloned by Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics, based near Edinburgh. The funding for Dolly's cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture. [7] She was born on 5 July 1996. [5]
In 1996, a team led by Ian Wilmut with Keith Campbell as the main contributor, used the same technique and shocked the world by successfully cloning a sheep from adult mammary cells. Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep named after the singer Dolly Parton , was born in 1996 and lived to be six years old (dying from a viral infection and not old age, as ...
Sir Ian Wilmut, 79, British embryologist, creator of Dolly the sheep. [216] 12 September Jean Boht, 91, English actress . [217] Elizabeth Jeffreys, 82, British Byzantinologist. [218] 13 September Sir William Gage, 85, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal (2004–2008). Jose Harris, 82, British historian and academic. [219]
Sir Ian Wilmut, 79, British embryologist , complications from Parkinson's disease. [247] 11. Gérald ...
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