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Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.
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Born 7 July 1944 · Died 10 September 2023 · Q1353638
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“I am naturally delighted and excited by this award and accept it on behalf of the team in the new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and previously at the Roslin Institute.”
WVUE FOX 8 News: Ian Wilmut, a British scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep, dies at age 79
Died 2023-09-10.
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“I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.”
“Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.”
“Idioma original: «Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be be prohibited.”
“Idioma original: « I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.”
“Is this sort of thing which has been thought about beneficial? So that if you're asking the question, for example, "Is it appropriate to think of making a copy of a person?" You have to ask not only, "What is the benefit to the people who are asking for this to be done?" But also, "What's the impact on the child that's going to be produced?" And that last bit I think often gets missed out.”
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2008).
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Awarded Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (2008).
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Was knighted in the New Year Honours for services to science
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Wilmut announced that he would abandon the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer by which Dolly was created in favour of an alternative technique developed by Shinya Yamanaka
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Admitted his colleague Keith Campbell deserved "66 per cent" of the invention that made Dolly's birth possible, and that the statement "I did not create Dolly" was accurate
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Wilmut's book After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning was published, co-authored with Roger Highfield
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2005).
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Awarded EMBO Membership (2003).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2002).
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Awarded Ernst Schering Prize (2002).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2000).
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Awarded Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1999).
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And Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000
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For services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours
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Awarded Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award (1998).
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Received the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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“The fact that the whole animal comes from a single cell is really an extraordinary thing, and it”
Wilmut was Time magazine man of the year runner up
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First cloned a mammal, a lamb named Dolly
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First cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly
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Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor of Philosophy (1971).
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Wilmut spent eight weeks working in the laboratory of Christopher Polge, who is credited with developing the technique of cryopreservation in 1949
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Born 1944-07-07.
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I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.
Is this sort of thing which has been thought about beneficial? So that if you're asking the question, for example, "Is it appropriate to think of making a copy of a person?" You have to ask not only, "What is the benefit to the people who are asking for this to be done?" But also, "What's the impact on the child that's going to be produced?" And that last bit I think often gets missed out.
Idioma original: « I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.
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