If you were old enough to watch the news or read the paper back in the late 1990s, you very likely remember Dolly, the cloned sheep. Born in 1996, the researchers responsible for cloning her kept it ...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, has died at 79. The University of Edinburgh, where he served as a professor before his 2012 retirement, announced ...

Irina Polejaeva and her team use the latest techniques to bioengineer animals. With CRISPR genome editing, they make sheep with conditions that mimic human genetic diseases, and goats carrying ...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the cloning of Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79. Wilmut led the University of Edinburgh team that successfully created Dolly, the first mammal to be ...

LONDON, UK — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday ...

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (WHTM) — It was an achievement that many scientists believed was impossible. On Feb. 22, 1997, a scientific team headed by Professor Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute, part of the ...

After Dolly the sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, news of animal cloning seemed to practically fall off the front page and into the dustbin of history. Dolly was cloned ...

From the very beginning, it has been one of the most pressing questions in the science of cloning: Do the resulting copies of individuals suffer from advanced aging? Concern crept in when the very ...

LONDON(Reuters) - The heirs of Dolly the sheep are enjoying a healthy old age, proving cloned animals can live normal lives and offering reassurance to scientists hoping to use cloned cells in ...