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The Reunion: Dolly the Sheep

Joining Sue MacGregor to recall Dolly's creation and legacy is: Sir Ian Wilmut, then head of the Dolly team and now Chair of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Professor Keith Campbell who led the scientific research; Dr Bill Ritchie, who implemented the cloning theory; Marjorie Ritchie, the Institute's surgeon; and John Bracken, the anaesthetist present at Dolly's birth and the man who named her. Listen here

Bill Ritchie material world

Dr Bill Ritchie, from Roslin Embryology - in the heart of the Edinburgh Science Triangle - talks to Quentin Cooper on BBC Radio 4's Material World, about his proposal to clone the Scottish Wildcat.
One of the team who cloned Dolly the sheep 15 years ago, is now turning his attention to attempting to save one of Scotland's most endangered indigenous species.  Listen here

Embryologist Bill Ritchie in the micro-manipulation lab at The Roslin Institute

The Roslin Institute of the University of Edinburgh is a major international centre for research on the molecular and quantitative genetics of farm animals. This photograph is part of a series of four images which show the key members of the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. The series tracks the main stages of the cloning process. Here, Bill Richie, the Embryologist, is shown in the micro-manipulation lab. In the 1990s the photographer Wendy McMurdo was already exploring the idea of the perfect copy in relation to cloning, a parallel concern of the scientific world. As part of this commission McMurdo wanted to explore each person’s individual contribution to an event of great significance, read more here