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Mammalian Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy: Problems and Promise

This video was recorded at MIT World Series: Technology Day 2003 Fast Times at MIT: What's New, What's Next - Now What?. In this talk, leading genetist Rudolf Jaenisch delivers a clear overview of the challenges facing the cloning, dispelling many of the misconceptions about cloning that are pervasive in popular media. The Q&A session with the alumni audience led to animated discussions about the ethics of cloning. Jaenisch has been a leader in expressing the ethical issues connected to cloning and is strongly against the practice of human cloning. Link to - Lecture´s Homepage Lecture Host - Alumni Association Series - Technology Day 2003

Keywords:: videolectures, ocwc, oec

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: March 15, 2017
Author:: Rudolf Jaenisch, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States