Posts filed under ‘Cloning’
Sheep Cloned (1997)
Barcode (ID): 03B0228919 
Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Cloning, Animal Rights
Date of Broadcast: 23rd February 1997
Clip Duration: 1 min 28 seconds
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Description: Scientists in Scotland have been defending a breakthrough which has produced the world’s first clone of an adult animal. Dolly the sheep was cloned from a genetically identical animal at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.
- First section fuzzy section due to copyright
- Roslin Institute, Edinburgh where Dolly was cloned from a stem cell taken from one sheep udder
- Develop new treatments and possibly create sheep that can produce specific treatments for diseases
- Interview from opposition
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British Scientist Wants To Clone Human Embryos (2004)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning
Date of Broadcast: 21st April 2004
Clip Duration: 1 min 44 seconds
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Illustrates the advantages and disadvantage, 2 sides of opinions on Therapeutic cloning of embryos
Description: It’s a question that has divided opinion for years – is it right to clone human embryos? Now after saying he wasn’t interested, the British scientist who brought us Dolly the Sheep is aiming to do just that. He says he’s applied for permission because he wants to study the causes of motor neurone disease. It’s a move supported by sufferers like this man Tim Cooper, from Kidderminster. But does a breakthrough in preventing or treating this kind of illness, outweigh the strong moral objections?
- Tim Cooper says anyone against the cloning of human embryos should try living with motor neurone disease
- He believes it is very exciting and any movement to increase changes of a cure is marvellous news
- Prof Ian Wilmott who cloned Dolly the Sheep
- Dr Helen Watt, expert in medical ethics interview ‘this is not cloning for birth as all these embryos will die and cloning human beings for purpose of lethal experimentation’
- USA Washington – President Bush pulled funding on stem cell research – ‘life is creation not commodity’
- Lord Winston – regulated, it is against the law to do reproductive cloning and will remain against the law in this country’
- If cleared the controversial work could be cleared later this year
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Newcastle Scientists Apply To Clone Human Embryos (2004)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning
Date of Broadcast: 16th June 2004
Clip Duration: 1 min 51 seconds
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Good description of how an embryo is cloned and could be used to cure diabetes
Description: The frontiers of research should, scientists said today, be pushed back further to allow cloning of human embryos. The research team, from Newcastle University, say they can use what are known as stem cells to develop radical new treatments for diabetes.
- If proposal is accepted, scientists at Newcastle will be the first to clone human embryos for research into diseases
- Therapeutic cloning
- Case study – Mari Wilson
- Illustration/explanation of cloning used for curing diabetes
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Genetic Cloning – Premature Ageing (1999)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning
Date of Broadcast: 27th May 1999
Clip Duration: 1 min 44 seconds
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Outlines a problem with cloning embryos, humans and animal
Description: There’s worrying new evidence today about the effects of genetic cloning. ‘Dolly’ the cloned sheep is showing signs of premature ageing. She has an abnormality in her genetic makeup – a fact which casts a shadow over all future genetic cloning.
- Dolly the sheep – is she mutton dressed as lamb ?
- Look young but genetic material inside is ageing
- DNA, chromosome and telomeres illustration – how we age
- Dolly was cloned from a 6-year-old sheep
- Possible that a 60-year-old human cloning himself may give ‘old’ genes to a baby
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Clone Sheep Row (1996)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning
Date of Broadcast: 7th March 1996
Clip Duration: 1 min 39 seconds
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Good illustration and description of animal cloning using sheep
Description: Two identical sheep have been reproduced in a laboratory in Edinburgh through a new form of genetic cloning. The staff of the Roslin Institute believe their work will be of benefit to humans.
- 2 sheep are the first stage of a breeding revolution
- 2 have been cloned in a laboratory
- In future, selected and bred for better yield of milk for example
- Illustration on cloning using sheep example
- 2 out 250 embryos survived however believed will be able to clone elite embryos
- ‘Society must decide how this technique will be used’
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Government Bans Human Cloning (1999)
Barcode (ID): 03b0550496 
Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning, Stem Cell Research
Date of Broadcast: 24th June 1999
Clip Duration: 3 min 11 seconds
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Some really good illustrations on the process of human cloning
Description: The government has called a halt to all cloning of human cells. It says the cloning of human beings is illegal and will remain illegal. The moratorium is expected to last for a year while tests are carried out to see if the techniques can be used for medical research. Experts will look at whether cloning can be used to replace damaged cells.
- Austin Smith, leading British researcher
- Law should be relaxed so scientists can clone human embryos solely for medical research
- Government has backed down however
- Open debate on ethical issues and 6 month report on the advantages of therapeutic cloning
- Description with illustration on the use of cloning in Parkinson’s disease
- If technique works, stem cells could be used to provide cells for heart etc
- Currently only use human embryos for infertility, miscarriages, congenital diseases, genetic disorders, contraceptives
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Human Cell Cloning Permitted For Medical Research (2000)
Barcode (ID): 03b0553180 
Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning, Stem Cell Research
Date of Broadcast: 16th August 2000
Clip Duration: 1 min 34 seconds
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Science and ethical content very brief but a quick definition of stems cells and their benefits, case study and opposition to their use by a religious scientist
Description: Scientists are to be given the green light to clone human cells for medical research. Ministers have decided to change the law, following advice from a panel led by the Chief Medical Officer. It raises the prospect of replacement organs being grown for transplant — but using the technique to make a cloned baby will be banned.
- Brief explanation of stem cells
- Potential benefits – Lord Winston – regeneration of heart muscle, help for people in Parkinson’s Disease
- Diane Brockway, patient with Parkinson’s talks briefly about the benefits
- Dr Helen Watt – scientist and Roman Catholic – believes we should be using ethical stem cells – ‘you cannot treat one human being by killing another’
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Cloning – Scientist Claims To Have Implanted Cloned Embryo In Woman (2004)
Barcode (ID): 03d0626375 
Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning
Date of Broadcast: 7th January 2004
Clip Duration: 1 min 52 seconds
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Description: His claims have caused shock and anger – tonight the maverick scientist who says he’s responsible for what could become the world’s first cloned human being is defiant. Dr Panos Zavos claims to have implanted a cloned embryo into a 35-year-old woman. Although he offered no conclusive proof, doctors, politicians and fertility experts all condemned the move as dangerous and unethical. And he’s planning more controversial treatments.
- Dr Zavos remained defiant – claims to have implanted a cloned embryo into a 35-year-old woman
- Refused to give anymore details about the embryo he has cloned
- Respects opinion of others but says he does things according to the law – ‘whether i’m morally and ethically offensive, its their opinion and i respect that and they can keep it for themselves but they cannot do anything to me to harm me because i do nothing to harm them. I do things according to the law.’
- Dolly the sheep, put down after showing signs of lung cancer
- Medical and scientific authorities are horrified
- Law will not change – John Reid, Health Secretary – ‘we are opposed to designer babies, it is outlawed in this country’
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Genetics – Human embryo cloned – Stem cell research hopes (2004)
Barcode (ID): 03d0626643 
Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning, Stem Cell Research
Date of Broadcast: 12th Feb 2004
Clip Duration: 7 min 27 seconds
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Although a clip that is 7 minutes long it contains a very detailed section, near beginning, on how stem cells are harvested from an embryo.
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Scientists have been talking excitedly today, about cures for diseases like Parkinson’s and diabetes, after a breakthrough in human cloning. They insisted that their research would not be used to reproduce humans, but that stem cells would be taken from embryos to help treat a range of illnesses.
- Hailed as a breakthrough in cloning technology not for cloning humans but medicine
- Scientists have successfully harvested stem cells from a cloned human embryo – the first step towards cures for diseases such as Parkinson’s
- First time scientific community has accepted their work
- Fuzzy section – when tissues transplanted into patient from stem cells they show no side-effects
- Technology no different from that used in cloning Dolly the Sheep
- Scientific section – explains how stem cell are harvested
- Fuzzy section – used 250 plus eggs to clone 30 human embryos to get one cell line – still early days – preventing a wider application
- Prof. Ian Wilmut explains the difficultly in cloning a monkey – closest species to us – this problem did not arise in humans
- Fuzzy section
- Opportunity to use these techniques to clone human beings and reproduction but currently human cloning banned in UK but as yet no international ban
- Scientists made clear they were involved in therapeutic cloning not reproductive
- Still over a decade until it may be possible to use stem cells to cure diseases
- Interview with Prof. Lovell Badge from Medical Research Council – will be a gradual process, will take a while before becomes routine
- First application will be the use of stem cells to research into genetic diseases
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Cloning – Medical Research (1998)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning
Date of Broadcast: 8th December 1998
Clip Duration: 2 mins 13 seconds
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A simple explanation with illustrations on the process of cloning.
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Some of Britain’s top scientists are urging the government to allow researchers to go ahead with attempts at cloning human embryos. A joint report by the countries leading advisors on genetics and embryology, oppose cloning as a technique to produce children – but is not against cloning for medical research. The move could allow scientists to grow spare organs for transplants.
- Dolly the sheep – example of cloning
- Recommendation of changing law so human embryos can be grown and be tailor-made for organ transplants
- Illustration on how a cell is cloned – brain cell
- Possible changing of law to allow the cloning of cells for tackling disease
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