<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>One of the creators of the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prof Sir Ian Wilmut's work, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, laid the foundations for stem cell research.</div><div><br></div><div>That technology aims to cure many of the diseases of ageing by enabling the body to regenerate damaged tissue.</div><div><br></div><div>His legacy is the creation of a field known as regenerative medicine, which has huge potential to enable more people to live longer, healthier lives.</div><div><br></div><div>The creation of Dolly in 1996 was arguably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 20th Century.</div><div><br></div><div>Prof Wilmut was among the leaders of a team that used a cell from the mammary gland of a dead adult sheep to create a living animal that was genetically identical to the donor. According to BBC reports </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>