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> November 30, 2000:
Hour One: Cloning Controversy
Earlier this week a Massachusetts company announced that it had succesfully
cloned a human embryo. Join Ira Flatow on the next Science Friday for
a look at the science behind the announcement. How close are scientists
to reliably and easily cloning a human? And how does this announcement
change the debate about banning all human cloning?
Guests:
Lee Silver
Professor, Genetics
Princeton University
Author, "Re-Making
Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave, New World"
Princeton, New Jersey
Stuart A. Newman
Board Member, Council for Responsible
Genetics
Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy
New York Medical College
Valhala, New York
Gerald Schatten
Director, Pittsburgh Development Center of Magee-Womens
Research Institute
Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Cell Biology
and Physiology
University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Related Links:
US
News and World Report: Cover Story 12/3/01 Scientists have finally cloned
a human embryo
Scientific
American: Explore!: The First Human Cloned Embryo: November 25, 2001
National
Bioethics Advisory Commission -- Publications
bioethics.net
::: The American Journal of Bioethics
CNN.com
- Bush establishes presidential council on bioethics - November 28,
2001 Advanced
Cell Technology Home
New
Scientist | Cloning
House
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Cloning Hearing
NY
Times: Researchers Find Big Risk of Defect in Cloning Animals
Clonaid
Human
Cloning Foundation
washingtonpost.com:
Cloning
Human
Cloning - latest cloning news and human cloning links
NIH
Education: Creating A Cloned Sheep Named Dolly
This segment produced by:
Annette Heist
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