Hank brings us the story of Elizabeth Blackburn, the Nobel Prize-winning Australian woman who discovered telomeres and telomerase, and helped scientists begin to understand the process of aging at a genetic level.

This video discusses the promising potential of stem cell medicine in treating various diseases but highlights a key challenge faced by scientists in creating extensive blood supply systems for engineered tissues.

Japan has become the first country to greenlight a controversial experiment involving hybrid human-animal embryos.

Earlier this week, researchers published in the journal Cell that they had created embryonic stem cells by cloning human skin cells. An embryo is usually created when sperm enters the egg cell, which then starts to divide. Instead of...

1. Mid of Hwang Woo-suk walking into the court, with reporters throng

2. Photogra
phers
3. Another scientist walking into
the court
4. Close-up of signboa
rd inside court
5. Wide of Hwang's supporters...

Nov. 17 -- Dr. Robin Smith, chairman and CEO of NeoStem, discusses the company's clinical trials of heart attack victims in which stem cells are taken from a patient's hip and injected to open blood vessels in the heart. She speaks with...

HEADLINE: Out of the spotlight, adult stem cells far ahead of embryonic in human trials.

CAPTION: For all the emotional debate over embryonic stem cells, it is adult stem cells that are at the forefront of...

There's some excitement in the air at Stamford University and it's due to the stem cell research taking place in these these laboratories.

Scientists here claim they've...

Baltimore, Maryland; Los Angeles, California & Washington, DC; USA March 6-13, 2001

Baltimore, Maryland March 7, 2001-
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1. Close-up and wide view of stem cells being treated in lab

2. Mid and close-up image of neu
rons
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Elmer Price, University of Missouri, Associate Professor of...

1. Actor Michael J. Fox walks to podium

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HEADLINE: Stem Cell Research, Politi
cs Heat Up
CAPTION: As Congress votes on legislation to ease limits on stem cell...

HEADLINE: Obama ends funding ban for stem cell research

CAPTION: President Barack Obama ended a ban on federal funding of stem cell research. Obama's decision is a sharp reversal of the policies enacted by...

A HANDFUL OF PATIENTS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED THE LAB-MADE parts, SUCH AS TEAR DUCTS, BLOOD VESSELS AND WINDPIPES.

{SOT: Alexander Seifalian, University College Lo
ndon}
"All be successful and no immune...

Cambridge and London, England, UK/Washington, DC, USA/File (recent/file):

Cambridge (recent): US scientist Dr Roger Pedersen, who now works in Britain, exterior of Addenbrookes Hospital, Dr Pedersen in corridor, laboratory, Dr...

1. Pull out view of Bush speaking

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. Presi
dent:
"Today the House of Representatives is considering a bill that violates the clear standard that I set...

English/Nat

The U-S Congress is being urged to retain a ban on the public funding of research into the use of human embryo 'stem cel
ls'.
A coalition of groups opposed to the practice,...

APTN - Washington, DC - July 29, 2005

1. Exterior of the US Capitol, zoom in to a close shot of
flag
POOL - Washington, DC - Jul
y 29, 2005
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) US Senate Majority...

Mashhad - March 16, 2009

1. Close-up of test tubes filled with blood spinning on a lab machine to avoid clo
tting
2. Mid of lab technicians working o
n...

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k, NY
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anqi Miao
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May 12,
2006
1. Prosecution official Lee In-kyu entering news c
onference
2. Cutaway o
f photographers
3. Wide sho
t of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Lee...

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus068846AT 4 MONTHS OLD, JOSUE SALINAS SALGADO IS GOING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE WAS BORN. JOSUE HAS A RARE HEART DEFECT THAT WOULD BE FATAL WITHOUT TREATMENT. IN ORDER FOR...

1. South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk (red tie) entering the courthouse for hearing surrounded by security, supporters and media

2. Medium of Hwang ent
ering
3. Wide of Hwan
g...

July 4, 2006

1. South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk arriving with lawyers for he
aring
2. Cutaway of sign in Korean listing room numbers of Seoul Central Dist
rict Cour
t
3. Media
4....