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Professor Sir Ian Wilmut was part of a team at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh which successfully cloned Dolly in 1996. (stv.tv)
LONDON (AP) - Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. (wgnradio.com)
Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, has died at 79. (yahoo.com)
Scientist Ian Wilmut, who led a team from Scotland's Roslin Institute and biotech company PPL Therapeutics plc to clone Dolly the Sheep in 1996, died on Sept. 10 at age 79. (bioworld.com)
Wilmut, along with Keith Campbell from the animal sciences research institute in Scotland, generated news headlines and heated ethical debates in 1996 when they created Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. (cyprus-mail.com)
It was these efforts which led to the births of Megan and Morag in 1995 and Dolly in 1996," the university said in a statement. (cyprus-mail.com)
Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult derived somatic cell, was born in 1996. (nottingham.ac.uk)
His research blossomed after he came to Roslin Institute where in a series of papers he put the intellectual framework into the method of mammalian cloning that ultimately led to the birth of Dolly in 1996. (nottingham.ac.uk)
A year before Dolly, he successfully cloned two lambs (Megan and Morag) whose cells were taken from sheep embryos.University of EdinburghDolly's successful birth in 1996 marked the first time a mammal was successfully cloned from an adult cell. (sp1ndex.com)
Why in news - Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created the first cloned mammal Dolly the Sheep in 1996, died. (perfectionias.com)
His research laid the foundation for the cloning of animals, including the famous cloning of "Dolly the sheep" by Ian Wilmut in 1996. (observervoice.com)
is a British developmental biologist who was the first to use nuclear transfer of differentiated adult cells to generate a mammalian clone, a Finn Dorset sheep named Dolly, born in 1996. (mathisfunforum.com)
He is best known as the former director and chief executive of the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, when in 1996 the research group led by Ian Wilmut first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly. (wikispro.com)
Cloned by Roslin Institute in 1996, Dolly came to symbolize Scotland's world-leading innovation in the life sciences. (biopharminternational.com)

The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday after a long illness with Parkinson's disease. (wgnradio.com)
Wilmut was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2018 and became a patron of a new research program at the university working to slow the disease's progression with next-gen therapies. (yahoo.com)
The University of Edinburgh announced that he had died five years after he revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's - the disease for which Dolly offered hope of a cure. (worldtimetodays.com)
When Professor Wilmut introduced the sheep in 1997, it paved the way for potential stem cell treatments to treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disease that affects more than 150,000 people in the UK. (worldtimetodays.com)
Ian Wilmut, a renowned British embryologist famous for his groundbreaking work in cloning and stem cell research, has sadly passed away at the age of 79 due to Parkinson's disease. (biotecnika.org)
His death on Sunday after a long illness with Parkinson's disease was announced by the Roslin Institute , a research center near Edinburgh, where Dr. Wilmut had worked for decades. (elevationminds.com)
In 2018 , Dr. Wilmut, who lived in Scotland, said that he had Parkinson's disease and that he would participate in a research program to test new types of treatments intended to slow the disease, which affects the part of the brain that controls movement. (elevationminds.com)

Tragically, Dolly's life was cut short when she developed an incurable lung tumor, leading scientists to euthanize her. (biotecnika.org)

Wilmut, who was born near Stratford-upon-Avon, attended the University of Nottingham, initially to study agriculture, before switching to animal science. (cyprus-mail.com)
Dr. Wilmut was born near Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to two teachers and became interested in biology at school. (elevationminds.com)

Scientists named Dolly after singer Dolly Parton, because she was cloned using a cell from the mammary gland of a six-year-old Dorset Finn ewe, and she was kept a secret for the first months of her life. (stv.tv)
Initially referred to as "6LL3" in the academic paper describing the work, the lamb was later named Dolly, after the singer Dolly Parton. (wgnradio.com)
Dolly, named after country singer Dolly Parton, was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). (cyprus-mail.com)
Dolly, who was named after the singer Dolly Parton, died in February 2003 at age 6 after a brief lung infection. (elevationminds.com)

Cloning first succeeded in producing a live birth with the famed sheep clone Dolly in 1997, and has since been used with many other animal species, including dairy cows and beef cattle, poultry, hogs and other livestock. (thepigsite.com)
Dr. Wilmut and his team announced the remarkable birth of Dolly in February 1997, creating a media frenzy and raising questions about the ethics of cloning. (elevationminds.com)
Many animal cloners -- including Ian Wilmut, the Scottish researcher who successfully cloned the first animal, Dolly the sheep, in 1997 -- disapprove of human cloning. (culteducation.com)

Dolly was the first successfully created clone from an adult mammalian cell. (worldtimetodays.com)
How many attempts did it take to clone Dolly? (pooginook.com)
How much did it cost to clone Dolly the sheep? (pooginook.com)
What happened to Dolly the sheep clone? (pooginook.com)
The technique synchronized the cell cycles of both cells and the results led Wilmut and Campbell to believe that any type of cell could be used to produce a clone. (shawprize.org)
This 13-minute video shows students both the scientific and cultural context surrounding Dolly, the world's first clone of an adult mammal. (retroreport.org)
Is Dolly an exact clone of the nucleus donor? (retroreport.org)
Even the world's most famous sheep clone, Dolly, who died recently suffered from problems linked to this gene. (irfi.org)
This report is bad news for the unethical charlatans who have been preying on people by claiming they are able to clone people's loved ones,' said Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who led the new study in April 11, 2003 issue of the journal Science. (irfi.org)

Dolly the sheep made history 20 years ago after being cloned at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. (worldtimetodays.com)
It's a rather fatuous use of the technology," said Dr Harry Griffin, director of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, which produced Dolly. (pooginook.com)
It seems that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and the authors have allowed themselves to over-interpretate their interesting results,' said Professor Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute, in Edinburgh, leader of the team, which cloned Dolly the sheep. (irfi.org)

Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Sir Ian Wilmut. (stv.tv)
Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose research was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep, has died, the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh said Monday. (wgnradio.com)
Wilmut is survived by his wife, three children and five grandchildren, the University of Edinburgh said. (wgnradio.com)
Wilmut moved to the University of Edinburgh the following decade, focusing on using cloning to make stem cells for regenerative medicine. (yahoo.com)
British scientist Ian Wilmut, whose research was central to the creation of the cloned animal, Dolly the Sheep, has died at the age of 79, the University of Edinburgh said on Monday. (cyprus-mail.com)
Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: "We are deeply saddened by the news of the death of Professor Sir Ian Wilmut. (worldtimetodays.com)
Ian Wilmut and Keith H S Campbell worked together in the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh for many years, using sheep as the model, in order to understand the early physiology of the egg and how laboratory manipulations can improve our knowledge of the development from egg to birth. (shawprize.org)
That was certainly not the intent of the Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and his team at the Roslin Institute outside of Edinburgh. (retroreport.org)
The result of a close creative collaboration between scientist Clare Blackburn (University of Edinburgh) and filmmaker Amy Hardie, Stem Cell Revolutions features eminent international figures in stem cell research - including Nobel Laureate Sir Martin Evans and Sir Ian Wilmut, creator of Dolly the sheep - as well as acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood. (scottishdocinstitute.com)

Scientists from the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) have addressed these similarities and differences in 10 different types of cancer with two proteogenomic studies to unravel the genes that lead to cancer and the galaxy of interactions that regulate them. (bioworld.com)
Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the project that cloned a mammal for the first time, Dolly the sheep, shocking scientists who had thought that cloning was impossible, has died. (elevationminds.com)
The archives of the Roslin Institute and the personal papers of Ian Wilmut testify to the increasingly public-facing role of scientists, which a glance at the file upon file of press enquiries about Dolly the sheep reveals. (ed.ac.uk)

Professor Jus St.John, Director of the Centre for Reproduction & Development at Monash University, Australia, said: "Keith Campbell was an outstanding and inventive scientist whose foresight and work led to major changes in how we now ask scientific questions and make significant advances. (nottingham.ac.uk)
Wilmut, along with his colleague Keith Campbell and their research team, achieved a monumental milestone in the world of science by successfully cloning the first mammal from an adult cell - famously known as Dolly the Sheep in 1996. (biotecnika.org)
Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and their dedicated team made history when they created Dolly the Sheep. (biotecnika.org)

FILE - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut is seen in the Pauls Church in Frankfurt, central Germany, Monday, March 14, 2005. (wgnradio.com)
Dolly was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell from a Scottish Blackface sheep. (bioworld.com)
Ian Wilmut, the Scottish biologist who developed a technique that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, acknowledges there is still some convincing to do on the matter of therapeutic cloning, but he remains an evangelist for its scientific potential. (wtnnews.com)
In 1999, Scotland's main economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise, pledged to double the country's biotech community and create Europe's leading biotechnology region by utilizing Scotland's academic science departments, research institutes, hospitals, and large and small biotech companies. (biopharminternational.com)

A year before Dolly, he successfully cloned two lambs (Megan and Morag) whose cells were taken from sheep embryos. (yahoo.com)

A leading proponent of cryopreservation, he also implanted the first calf embryo, Frostie , in a surrogate cow. (thefamouspeople.com)

Dolly was the first successful cloning of a mammal from an adult somatic cell, demonstrating the viability of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). (yahoo.com)

The Roslin Institute said Wilmut was knighted in 2008 and retired from the university in 2012. (wgnradio.com)

He said the legacy of Wilmut's work in cloning Dolly continues to be seen. (wgnradio.com)
While Dolly proved that cells could be used to create a copy of the animal they came from, Wilmut's next experiment proved that they could also be altered. (yahoo.com)
Even those who focused more on the natural world than supernatural ones worried about the potential for making "designer humans" or something out of The Island of Dr. Moreau.While Dolly proved that cells could be used to create a copy of the animal they came from, Wilmut's next experiment proved that they could also be altered. (sp1ndex.com)

Wilmut, a trained embryologist, later focused on using cloning techniques to make stem cells that could be used in regenerative medicine. (wgnradio.com)
Ian Wilmut is a British embryologist. (perfectionias.com)
We are saddened to hear of the death of Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, world-renowned embryologist and specialist in regenerative medicine, who led the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep - his work continues to inform and inspire science at Roslin and beyond. (midlothiansciencezone.com)

Wilmut set off a global discussion about the ethics of cloning when he announced that his team at the university's Roslin Institute for animal biosciences had cloned a lamb using the nucleus of a cell from an adult sheep. (wgnradio.com)
Dolly was the only surviving lamb from 277 cloning attempts and was created from a milk cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep. (worldtimetodays.com)
To give you an idea how hard this was, Dolly (initially identified as 6LL3) was the only lamb born alive from 277 attempts! (pooginook.com)
created a lamb (Dolly), the topic of cloning 'created' many new questions of its own. (writework.com)

It was reported that 29 embryos were successfully created, and subsequently implanted into 13 surrogate mothers, but Dolly was the only pregnancy that went to full term. (pooginook.com)

He was a titan of the scientific world, leading the Roslin Institute team who cloned Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell - which transformed scientific thinking at the time. (stv.tv)
Whitelaw described Wilmut as a "titan" of science and said his work in Dolly's creation transformed scientific thinking at the time. (wgnradio.com)

Just six years old when she was euthanized (sheep of Dolly's breed generally live to 11 or 12), Dolly suffered from premature arthritis and lung disease usually seen in much older animals. (thepigsite.com)
Sadly, in 2003 Dolly died prematurely at the age of 6.5 years after contracting ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a form of lung cancer common in sheep that is caused by the retrovirus JSRV. (pooginook.com)

Dolly was a perfectly normal sheep who became the mother of numerous normal lambs. (pooginook.com)
One of the live-born lambs, Dolly, was derived from the transplantation of the nucleus of an adult mammary cell. (shawprize.org)

Tributes have been paid to the scientist who led the team which cloned Dolly the sheep 27 years ago after he died at the age of 79. (stv.tv)
Ian led the research team that produce the first cloned mammal in Dolly. (stv.tv)
Professor Alison Murdoch who leads the Newcastle team said, 'It is of paramount importance to ensure that all donors are not recruited to participate in this research against their best interest by coercion or excessive financial inducement. (progress.org.uk)
He was a giant of the scientific world and led the Roslin Institute team that cloned Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult cell - which changed scientific thinking at the time. (worldtimetodays.com)

Sadly, Dolly was hardly unique among cloned animals. (thepigsite.com)

Dolly reproduced but died in 2003 - but is now on display in the National Museums of Scotland. (stv.tv)

He led efforts to develop cloning, or nuclear transfer, techniques that could be used to make genetically modified sheep. (cyprus-mail.com)

Prof Wilmut hoped cloning would mean no species became extinct - but Dolly also helped to pioneer stem cell research. (stv.tv)
Siegel's exploits in court versus the Räelians and in leading the battle to save stem cell research in the United Nations are the subject of an entire chapter, called "The Battle for Hearts and Minds," in "Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines" by Eve Herold (who is herself an official with the Genetics Policy Institute). (wikipedia.org)
Knighted in 2008, Sir Ian Wilmut revolutionized the field of cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine. (the-scientist.com)
Inevitably most people will remember him for Dolly the sheep although his recent work was focused on fundamental and applied stem cell research as a tool for the study of human disease. (nottingham.ac.uk)
Then, at age 5 - middle age, for a sheep living the good life in a research facility - Dolly developed osteoarthritis. (pooginook.com)
20 Years Since 'Dolly' Dolly with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the research which produced her. (pooginook.com)
The relationship between science and the media can be a prickly one - Dolly's birth led to hysterical press reactions about potential human cloning - but it also allows for open public debate about the wider implications of scientific research which can affect us all. (ed.ac.uk)
Gurdon's work also had significant implications for stem cell research, as it highlighted the potential to reprogram mature cells back into a pluripotent state, leading to the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). (observervoice.com)
The video clarifies the scientific process that led to Dolly's creation, explores how media and political leaders responded to the birth with surprise and fear, and how Dolly influenced the ongoing debate over the use of human embryos in stem cell research. (retroreport.org)

In the book The Second Creation , Ian Wilmut states that 'nothing could have prepared us for the (literally) thousands of telephone calls, the scores of interviews, the offers of tours and contracts and in some cases the opprobrium' which would follow the announcement of Dolly's birth. (ed.ac.uk)

What are epigenetic factors that could cause Dolly to be different from the nucleus donor? (retroreport.org)

Professor Campbell was instrumental in the creation of Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal, a breakthrough which paved the way for the successful cloning of many other mammal species. (nottingham.ac.uk)
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who worked with Professor Campbell on the creation of Dolly the Sheep, said: "Always cheerful and friendly, Keith will be greatly missed by all of his friends and colleagues. (nottingham.ac.uk)
Since then, the work of Wilmut and Campbell has been duplicated in many other animal species and has provided approaches to produce useful therapeutic products with cloned animals and to improve agricultural practices. (shawprize.org)

In his undergraduate studies, Wilmut initially pursued his lifelong interest in farming, particularly in raising animals such as sheep. (mathisfunforum.com)

Wilmut has said it took 276 failed attempts before Dolly was successfully cloned. (culteducation.com)

He then moved to PPLTherapeutics, the company that was spun out from Roslin Institute, where that procedure and his expertise led to the birth of cloned and genetically modified sheep, pigs and cattle. (nottingham.ac.uk)
His pioneering studies into cell-cycle control and cellular differentiation led to the programme of work at Roslin that gave birth to the first mammal to be cloned from adult cells - ie. (nottingham.ac.uk)

How public and political anxiety over cloning in the late 1990s led to decades of debate over the use of human embryos. (retroreport.org)

Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, but not the first ever sheep to be cloned. (stv.tv)
Dolly was important because she was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. (pooginook.com)
Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, died on 14 February. (pooginook.com)
Thus, Dolly was the first example of the reprogramming of the adult cell back to totipotency in a mammal. (shawprize.org)

Stem Cell Revolutions is an independent, feature length documentary exploring the history, development and ambitions of this fascinating field - from the first discovery of stem cells in the body to leading current clinical and scientific developments. (scottishdocinstitute.com)

Following the Dolly experiment's success, Ian Wilmut shifted his focus towards utilizing cloning technology to produce stem cells. (biotecnika.org)

I've always been very sceptical about the whole idea, but it dawned on me that if you could clear the first hurdle of getting viable cells from mammoths, you might be able to do something useful and interesting," Wilmut told the Guardian. (historynewsnetwork.org)

Ian Wilmut described Mr. Siegel as an "unsung hero" in his book, After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning. (wikipedia.org)
Yet even if researchers fully unravel the aging process, even if researchers identify the causal molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for human aging, such breakthroughs will not necessarily lead to a cure for aging. (senescence.info)

Home Biotech News Farewell to a Genius: Ian Wilmut, the Man Who Gave Us Dolly. (biotecnika.org)

LONDON - Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was. (lifememory.com)

The University of Texas Southwestern scientist studied the roles of glucagon and insulin in regulating blood glucose, leading to several successful treatments. (the-scientist.com)
Wilmut was raised in Coventry, a town in the historic English county of Warwickshire, and he attended the Agricultural College at the University of Nottingham. (mathisfunforum.com)

Dolly also spurred questions about the potential cloning of humans and extinct species. (wgnradio.com)
Those fears led President Clinton to ban the use of federal funds for cloning humans. (retroreport.org)

Researchers connect a tumor's leading edge transcriptional profile to poor survival outcomes across cancer types. (the-scientist.com)
Breast cancer is the leading form of the disease attacking women in Asia, followed by cervical cancer. (vepachedu.org)

It's been 20 years since Dolly. (retroreport.org)

Professor Sir Ian Wilmut: The scientist has died at the age of 79. (stv.tv)

She's been a friendly face of science," Dr. Wilmut said in an interview with The New York Times after her death. (elevationminds.com)

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