Roslin Institute
research center, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Also known as: ABRO, Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh Research Station of the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research
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Dolly
- In Dolly
…Wilmut and colleagues of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The announcement in February 1997 of Dolly’s birth marked a milestone in science, dispelling decades of presumption that adult mammals could not be cloned and igniting a debate concerning the many possible uses and misuses of mammalian cloning technology.
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Wilmut
- In Ian Wilmut: Pharming
…Research in 1985 and finally Roslin Institute in 1993), a government-supported research facility located in Roslin, Scot., just south of Edinburgh. At the ABRO facility, Wilmut studied embryo development and became interested in the underlying causes of embryo death in mammals. However, in the early 1980s, changes in ABRO leadership…
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