Professor Sir Ian Wilmut was part of a team at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh which successfully cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. She was announced to the world in 1997 and was the first time a mammal was cloned from an adult cell, transforming scientific thinking.
Described as a"titan of the scientific world", he was 79.
"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. She was announced to the world amid much media frenzy on 22 February 1997, and was part of a series of experiments at The Roslin Institute that were trying to develop a better method for producing genetically modified livestock.
Sir Ian said he hoped cloning would mean no species became extinct, but Dolly's creation also paved the way for potential stem cell treatments to tackle degenerative diseases.
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