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Ethicist Foresees Choosing Babies from Embryos
WITH INCREASING RATES OF INFERTILITY AROUND THE GLOBE, RESEARCHERS ARE EXPLORING NEW FRONTS IN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY.
SOUNDBITE (English) Amander Clark, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center:
"Around 10...
Curated Video
USA: MAPPING THE HUMAN GENOME LATEST (3)
Washington, USA - 12 February, 2001 and FILE
Washington, 12 Feb
1. Wide shot of Eric Lander speaking at launch
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Lander, Director, Whitehead Institute
3. Various DNA graphics
Washington, 12 Feb
4. SOUNDBITE:...
Curated Video
Hospital upgrade could improve health care
St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 29th October 2008
1. Various of Princess Royal coming into room and unveiling plaque opening hospital unit
2. Princess Anne signing commemoration book
3. Mid shot clinician inserting...
Curated Video
President Barack Obama announced a new funding initiative Friday, calling on congress to fund 'precision medicine' research that will tailors treatment to an individual's genes. (Jan. 30)
Holding out the promise of major medical breakthroughs, President Barack Obama on Friday called on Congress to approve spending in medical research that tailors treatment to an individual's genes.
Obama wants $215 million for what he's...
Curated Video
Team maps first draft of Neanderthal genome
1. Wide exterior of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
2. Close up of sign of Institute
3. Mid of graduate student Tomislav Maricic drilling hole into bone (for extraction of DNA)
4. Close-up of hole being...
Curated Video
++EMBARGOED 1800 GMT++Scientists engineer mutant enzyme which eats plastics quickly
++EMBARGOED 18.00 GMT MONDAY 16 APRIL++
WORLD PLASTIC EATING ENZYME
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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US Health Chief: Embryo gene editing 'great shock'
Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where scientists and ethicists were discussing a technology that had shaken the field to its core — an emerging tool for "editing"...
Curated Video
US Health Chief: Embryo gene editing 'great shock'
Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where scientists and ethicists were discussing a technology that had shaken the field to its core — an emerging tool for "editing"...
Curated Video
Cancer conference discuss treatments
Barcelona, September 24, 2007
1. Various shots of Laurent Cohen walking steps down
2. Various shots of Laurent Cohen at his desk
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Laurent Cohen, Cancer Survivor
"I never had doubts that I was going to win this...
Curated Video
USA: SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY GENE WHICH CAUSES PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Washington, DC, USA, 23, 26 June 1997
APTV File:
1. Shots of a doctor examining Parkinson's patient - Washington, DC, June 23, 1997
2. Mohammad Ali walks into news conference - File
3. Janet Reno testifying before Senate hearing -...
Curated Video
1st US Case of Resistance to Last Resort Drug
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus056427For the first time, a U.S. patient has found to be been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort treatment, scientists said Thursday.The patient - a 49-year-old...
Curated Video
USA: US-EU GENETIC FOODS TRADE DISPUTE
English/Nat
Genetically modified, or G-M, crops are the cause of the latest trade dispute between the U-S and Europe.
Advocates of crops that are genetically engineered to kill insect say that they reduce the need for heavy doses of...
Curated Video
Scientists find genetic cause of multiple sclerosis
LEAD IN: Scientists at the University of British Columbia say they've found a genetic mutation that causes a severe form of multiple sclerosis. The team claims it shows at least one form of multiple sclerosis is inherited and could they...
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Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she'll be paid about $5,000.
HEADLINE: N.Y. taxes to pay donors for stem cell studies
CAPTION: Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she'll be paid about $5,000....
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DNA expert, Centcom general on ways to identify Saddam by DNA
Iraqi TV
Unknown Date and Location
1. Saddam Hussein's son Qusay (in suit) and Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan
2. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein talking to cabinet members
3. Saddam son Uday (in shirt and jacket) with senior...
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USA: DEBATE ON ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC RESEARCH INTO CLONING
English/Nat
American scientists and politicians are debating the ethical implications of the latest genetic research into cloning.
Following the cloning of a sheep in the U-K earlier in this year, fears were raised that the technology...
Curated Video
Scientists hope to develop new therapy to stop cancer spreading
Scientists here believe they are on their way to developing a new treatment for cancer, perhaps one that may even prevent secondary cancers from forming.
Over the last twelve years researchers at Cardiff University's School of...
Bloomberg
Your DNA Is Probably Out There, Like It or Not
Mar.02 -- Police around the U.S. have embraced "genetic genealogy," which uses DNA consumers offer up to the internet to identify criminal suspects. The method has helped solve rapes and murders dating back to the 1970s. But a key facet...
Curated Video
Baby gene therapy study offers hope for fatal muscle disease ++Animation voiced++
LEAD IN:
Researchers are reporting a gene therapy has been used for the first time to help babies with a muscle disease that leaves them unable to move, swallow and breathe.
They say it's extending the...
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USA: GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
English/Nat
A government-appointed panel in the U-S has determined that genetically-modified foods now on the market are safe.
But some question the objectivity of the committee's report, which was released on Wednesday.
As researchers...
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US Health Chief: Embryo gene editing 'great shock'
Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where scientists and ethicists were discussing a technology that had shaken the field to its core — an emerging tool for "editing"...
Curated Video
Cloned cows produce milk that contains human breast milk enzymes
AP Television
Beijing, China, May 12, 2011
1. Mid worker preparing to milk cows
2. Close of industrial milk bottle with cow in the background
3. Wide of two industrial milk bottles
4. Close up sign in Mandarin at farm entrance:...
Sky News
Allergy Risk Doubles if Same Sex Parent Suffers
Allergy Risk Doubles if Same Sex Parent Suffers
Bloomberg
The New Technology Helping to Prevent the Rebuilding of Deadly Viruses
Jun.27 -- Genetic engineering could help produce more resilient crops and more effective vaccines. Some fear that it could also be used to make a biological weapon. Bloomberg's Rebecca Spalding has more on "What'd You Miss?"