Ian Wilmut

Scientist Ian Wilmut with Dolly, the worlds first cloned sheep, at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in 2001.

Cloning scientists create human brain cells 2012

Feb. 22, 1997: Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Scotland shocks the world when he announces the cloning of an adult sheep.

February 2009 2009

Feb. 22, 1997: Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Scotland shocks the world when he announces the cloning of an adult sheep.

Thanks for the Mammary 2009

Feb. 22, 1997: Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Scotland shocks the world when he announces the cloning of an adult sheep.

Thanks for the Mammary 2008

Feb. 22, 1997: Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Scotland shocks the world when he announces the cloning of an adult sheep.

February 2008 2008

Ian Wilmut and his team at the Roslin Institute in Scotland replaced the nucleus from an oocyte taken from a Blackface ewe with the nucleus of a cell from the mammary gland of a six-year old Finn Dorset sheep.

Cloning Devolder, Katrien 2008

Even Ian Wilmut of Dolly-the-sheep cloning fame said he's abandoning cloning with the prospect of this new research.

Skin-Cell to Stem-Cell Hack Is Like 'Turning Lead Into Gold' By Brandon Keim 2007

Scotland's Roslin Institute's Ian Wilmut, on 6-year-old Dolly, the world's first cloned animal, who was given a lethal injection after veterinarians discovered she had a progressive lung disease "History will occur when institutions actually hire a woman to coach a men's team and give her all the opportunities to build a program."

Perspectives 2007

Ian Wilmut, who cloned Dolly, has long been hoping to find a treatment for motor-neuron disease in people by using the same technology he used in his original sheep experiment.

Advance in Stem-Cell Work 2007

Even Ian Wilmut of Dolly-the-sheep cloning fame said he's abandoning cloning with the prospect of this new research.

Stem Cell Breakthrough Is Like 'Turning Lead Into Gold' Brandon Keim 2007