‘Titan of the scientific world’ led team that cloned first mammal from an adult cell at Edinburgh in 1996
Sir Ian Wilmut, the man who led the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, has died, aged 79.
Prof Wilmut headed a group of scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh to create the sheep, which was born on 5 July 1996.
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