The British embryologist Ian Wilmut, one of the parents of the famous sheep Dolly, has died at the age of 79, according to has confirmed this Monday the University of Edinburgh. Dolly, born on July 5, 1996, was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell and sparked international fear of cloning human beings. Wilmut led the investigation, but he himself acknowledged that most of the work It was made by his colleague Keith Campbell, died in 2012 at the age of 58 after accidentally hanging himself while drunk, according to reports the newspaper The Telegraph. The German biologist Angelika Schnieke He was another of the key people in the creation of Dolly.
