One of the creators of Dolly the Sheep has died

In the UK, biologist Keith Campbell, known for his experiment on cloning Dolly the sheep, which he conducted under the guidance of Jan Wilmut at the Roslin Institute, died at the age of 59.

Until recently, the scientist worked at the University of Nottingham, where he continued to study embryos. The scientist died on Friday, October 5, but it became known only now. The departure of the famous Briton was announced by the representative of the University Tim Utton (Tim Utton). The cause of his death is not reported.

Campbell was born on May 23, 1954 in Birmingham. He studied at the University of London, where he received a bachelor's degree in microbiology, and at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), where he received a doctorate.

In 1991, he moved to Scotland, worked at the Roslin Institute, where he became one of the main participants in a group of scientists led by Ian Wilmut, who worked on animal cloning.

In 1995, Campbell and his colleagues successfully raised Megan and Morag's sheep by cloning. But the genetic material for the "creation" of these animals was obtained not from adults, but from the cells of embryos in the early stages of development, and the main task of Wilmut and Campbell was to clone an adult animal.

Success came to scientists in 1996, when Campbell and his colleague Ian Wilmut first conducted an experiment on cloning an animal from adult cells, as a result of which Dolly, the world-famous sheep, was born on July 5, 1996. In 2003, Dolly was euthanized. The cause was progressive lung cancer caused by a virus. Dolly was 6.5 years old.

Since November 1999, Campbell has been a professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nottingham. In 2000, Campbell's group created the world's first cloned piglets, but the main topic of his research was the study of the therapeutic properties of stem cells.

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11.10.2012