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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 12 (Xinhua) Ian Wilmut (Ian Wilmut), the British scientist who led the breeding of Dolly, the world's first somatic cloned sheep, died on September 10 at the age of 79, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland announced on Monday local time.

Wilmut was born near Stratford-upon-Avon and studied at the University of Nottingham. He studied agriculture before turning to animal science. He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2005, won a knighthood in 2008 and retired from the university in 2012.

Wilmut's research team bred Dolly, the world's first somatic cloned sheep, at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in July 1996, so he was called the "father of cloned sheep" and sparked a heated ethical debate around the world.

Wilmut later focused on using cloning technology to make stem cells that could be used in regenerative medicine. CTOnews.com learned from the obituary of the University of Edinburgh that Wilmut had Parkinson's disease for a long time before he died.

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