News about Ian Wilmut
Tributes to professor who changed the world by creating Dolly the Sheep - the world's first cloned mammal (and who was named after Dolly Parton!)
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September 11, 2023
The scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep 27 years ago died at the age of 79 has been given a tribute. Professor Sir Ian Wilmut was a member of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, which successfully closed Dolly in 1996. He retired from the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and revealed a Parkinson's disease diagnosis six years later. Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, but not the first sheep to be cloned.
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, a scientist who created Dolly the sheep, died at the age of 79. The condition the cloned animal had given rise to was a mystery five years ago, but there was hope of cure
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September 11, 2023
Sir Ian Wilmut, the chemist who cloned Dolly the Sheep, has died at the age of 79. The University of Edinburgh declared that he had died five years after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which Dolly had hoped to find a cure for. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.