Everything about Ian Wilmut totally explained
Prof. Sir Ian Wilmut OBE (born
July 7 1944) is an
English embryologist and is currently one of the leaders of the Queen's Medical Research Institute at the
University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the man who played a supervisory role in the team that in
1996 first cloned a mammal, a
Finn Dorset lamb named
Dolly. He was granted an
OBE in
1999 for services to embryo development. In
December 2007 it was announced that he'd be
knighted in the
2008 New Year Honours.
Steen Willadsen, at Cambridge, England, was the first to clone a mammal from differentiated cells, from sheep embryos, in 1984.
http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/details/1984.html
http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=RDv17n2_PA.pdf
In 1995,
Keith Campbell and Bill Ritchie succeeded in producing a pair of lambs, Megan and Morag from embryonic cells. Dolly the sheep, a Finn Dorset sheep, named after the singer,
Dolly Parton, was born in 1996. Dolly was the first clone derived from adult cells. She died early, in 2003, at 6 years old. In 1998 another sheep Polly was created. She was made from genetically altered skin cells to contain a human gene.
It has been reported that Wilmut is abandoning cloning in light of
Shinya Yamanaka's work on
induced pluripotent stem cells.
He was
knighted in the
2008 New Year Honours.
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/jan2008/petition_wilmut.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1512377/I-didn%27t-clone-Dolly-the-sheep%2C-says-prof.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3285475.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dolly-scientist-should-be-stripped-of-his-knighthood-colleagues-tell-queen-776746.html
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=400407&c=1
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/02/arise-sir-keith.html
He was a student of the former Boy's High School, in
Scarborough, where his father taught.
Controversy
Ian Wilmut's role in the Dolly project has since been disputed by his collaborators, because he wasn't fully qualified to do these procedures.. In March 2006 it was revealed that the scientists involved in cloning
Dolly the sheep are in major disagreement.
In
2006, while testifying at an
Edinburgh court following accusations of racial harassment of his fellow
Prim Singh, Ian Wilmut denied the accusations, but acknowledged that he wasn't the 'father' or "creator" of Dolly, that he performed none of the experiments, that he's minimised the role of some of his fellows, and he gave most of the credit (66%) to Keith Campbell, while playing a "supervisory" or managerial role himself. Wilmut's own credit in cloning Dolly the sheep is in doubt, but is less than 1/3rd (for example 1-33%) as other people, in addition to
Keith Campbell, did some of the work.
When asked by a reporter from the
Sunday Times newspaper in 2006, ten years after cloning
Dolly the sheep, about the controversy over credit for cloning Dolly the sheep, Wilmut replied "We have now done two books describing events as they were, giving everybody credit,"
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