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Ian Wilmut Quotes

1944–2023 England

Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was an English embryologist best known as the leader of the group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells.

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Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ian Wilmut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.