[1/3] Dr Ian Wilmut leading scientist at the Roslin institute answers questions from the world's media on the institutes ground breaking discovery, Dolly the worlds first cloned sheep from a test tube containing sheep eggs, February 25.
FILE PHOTO Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - British scientist Ian Wilmut, whose research was central to the creation of the famous cloned animal, Dolly the Sheep, has died at 79, the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh said on Monday.
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.
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Persons:
Ian Wilmut, Roslin, Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Dolly, Muvija, Michael Holden
Organizations:
Roslin, Edinburgh, Thomson
Locations:
British, Scotland