Wilmut

Wil·mut

(wĭl′mət), Ian Born 1944.

British zoologist who led the research group that created the sheep Dolly (1996), the first animal cloned from DNA originating from the cell of an adult animal.

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Wilmut - English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944)

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In a book, Made in Scotland, which is a mix of memoir and travelogue, Billy discusses the progress of his symptoms with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, a retired Edinburgh University scientist who was honoured for his part in the creation of Dolly the cloned sheep.

I'll be a guinea pig for Parkinson's researchers at Harvard.. I've stopped playing shows but I still want to do more; CONNOLLY ON LIVING WITH DISEASE Big Yin volunteers for stem cell trials

Sir Ian Wilmut, 73, admitted he is struggling to come to terms with the condition but added he is "happy to act as a guinea pig and donate tissue or try new treatments".

I cloned Dolly the sheep to beat Parkinson's... and now I have it

Professor Ian Wilmut later explained: "We couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's."

Attack of the clones; NOSTALGIA

TDolly was named after American country and western singer Dolly Parton because the test tube sheep was cloned from a mammary gland cell and Professor Ian Wilmut later explained: "We couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's."

Haven't we seen ewe somewhere before? 20 YEARS AGO, DOLLY THE SHEEP BECAME THE WORLD'S FIRST CLONED ANIMAL. MARION MCMULLEN CHECKS OUT THE MENAGERIE OF CATS, DOGS, HORSES, PIGLETS, CALVES AND RATS THAT FOLLOWED

Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics used the nuclear transfer cloning technique with somatic cells from an adult sheep.

Blindness doc Eye owe it all to Dolly the Sheep; FAMOUS ANIMAL LED TO BREAKTHROUGH Stem cell expert hails Scots clone pioneers

Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the Dolly team, used a mammary gland cell to create the clone so the woolly arrival was named after country star Dolly Parton.

You're smarter for 10; Send in the clones. MARION MCMULLEN is seeing double following the birth of Britain's first cloned puppy

Edited by Jose Cibelli, John Gurdon, Ian Wilmut, Rudolf Jaenish, Robert Lanza, Michael D.

Principles of Cloning, 2nd Edition

Ian Wilmut and his colleagues address important considerations for immune matching between iPSC donors and recipients.

Generating human induced pluripotent Stem Cell Banks

London, July 31 ( ANI ): Sir Ian Wilmut - the pioneering scientist whose team unveiled Dolly as the world's first cloned mammal in 1996 - has outlined how to help bring extinct woolly mammoths back to life.

Will prehistoric woolly mammoths roam earth again?

1996 Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues create the first cloned mammal, a sheep they named Dolly (shown below).

Back story: history of cloning research

It is over twenty-five years since Roger Wilmut published his detailed and entertaining story of variety that thoroughly explored the repertoire, the organization of the business, and the factors that slowly led to its withdrawal from our theatres (Kindly Leave the Stage: The Story of Variety 1919-1960, 1985).