British scientists Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell have received the Shaw Prize, the million-dollar award known as the Nobel Prize of the east for their contribution to the world of stem cell. Both of them are known to be the creator of Dolly.

The award, known to be the Nobel Prize of the east. was one of three million-dollar awards presented on the night by Hong Kong’s chief executive Donald Tsang at the annual ceremony.

Wilmut said last year he was switching from his method of cloning mammals from adult cells — which produced Dolly — to Yamanaka’s technique. The Kyoto University scientist has managed to create stem cells from fragments of skin from mice without using embryos and has worked on recreating the process with human cells.

Among the other catagory, the Shaw Prize for Astronomy was awarded to German Reinhard Genzel and award for mathematical sciences was shared by Russian Ludwig Faddeev and Vladimir Arnold.

Source: AFP


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