Xiangzhong “Jerry” Yang has died. Yang was the first stem cell scientist who cloned the first farm animal in the U.S. Yang had cancer and died after a long fight with the disease.

Yang died at the age of 49. Yang passed away on Thursday Feb 5.

Jerry Yang helped to clone the US’s first farm animal, a Holstein named Amy. Yang’s cloned the animal in 1999.UK had beaten everybody else by creating the world’s first cloned animal in a sheep named Dolly. Dolly was cloned in 1996 in Scotland.

Xiangzhong Jerry Yang photo and news link.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 5:28 am and is filed under News.