Dolly was the first cloned ovine and her creator, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, is to hold a conference on what the first cloned animal meant and how it forever changed things for science. The lecture is to be held at a university in Edinburgh.
Dolly’s creator was knighted by the British Empire in 2008 and he is known for being the first to have accomplished the cloning of a mammal. Dolly is a sheep that was cloned from an adult somatic cell of a Dorset Sheep and the ovine lived for almost seven years, from July 1996 to February 2003.
Professor Wilmut has said that the fact that the Dolly experiment offered new ways to study how the way molecules develop affects the development of such disease as cancer and schizophrenia.
Human cells in a laboratory, said the scientist, could help find new ways to test new medicines, thus reducing costs that are involved in developing them, as well as increasing efficiency.
Professor Ian Wilmut is one of the most important scientists in the history of regenerative medicine and his work is considered groundbreaking.
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