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Dr. Ian Wilmut (born 1944-07-07 ) is an English embryologist best known for his supervisory role in the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. Unsourced I've always enjoyed being...


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Name: Ian Wilmut
Birth Date: July 7, 1944
Place of Birth: Hampton Lucey, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: embryologist

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Biography of Ian Wilmut
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Ian Wilmut was born on July 7, 1944, in Hampton Lucey, England in Warwick. He attended the University of Nottingham, where he became fascinated with embryology after meeting G. Eric Lamming, a world-renowned expert in reproduction. The meeting became a...
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Ian Wilmut and his associates were the first to clone a mammal from the fully differentiated cells of an adult animal, and thus, thrust the practical concepts and ethics of cloning into scientific and public debate. Wilmut was born in Hampton Lucey,...
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Ian Wilmut (born 1944) was a quiet unassuming British embryologist who worked to improve the productivity of farm animals. By February 1997, he had shocked the scientific community by successfully cloning the first mammal from the DNA of an adult. By...


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1944- English Embryologist In February 1997 Ian Wilmut made international headlines when he announced that he and other researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland had successfully cloned the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from an adult animal....
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Sir Ian Wilmut OBE (born July 7 1944) is an English embryologist and is currently one of the leaders of the Queen's Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the man who played a supervisory role in the team that in...


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Double trouble? (Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut's landmark achievement of cloning an ewe; positive and negative aspects of cloning)
03/17/1997: 391 words, approx. 1 pages
Scottish scientist Dr. Ian Wilmut isn't seeing double lately. Or is he? He's seeing two identical ewes, or female sheep, where once there was only one. Dolly is a 7-month-old clone -- or genetic duplicate -- of her mother, a 6-year-old ewe. Wilmut and...
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The Futurist
Designer babies and 21st century cures: Ian Wilmut, the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep, plunges headfirst into the cloning debate in After Dolly.
09/01/2006: 1,259 words, approx. 4 pages
In 1997, a research team led by geneticist Ian Wilmut in Scotland succeeded in cloning a white-faced sheep named Dolly, and plunging the world into a new era of fear, possibility, and speculation. His new book, After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human...
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UK Dolly creator gives up cloning method
11/17/2007: 275 words, approx. 1 pages
The Scottish scientist who created Dolly the sheep more than a decade ago said he is abandoning the cloning technique that he pioneered, according to an interview published Saturday.Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly in 1996, told The Daily Telegraph that he...
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Questions, answers on stem cells
11/20/2007: 408 words, approx. 1 pages
Embryonic stem cells can develop into all kinds of tissue. Scientists have long sought to find a way to create such cells that are genetically matched to patients, because of the potential for new ways to treat disease and injury.They've pursued this through cloning, which...
 


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