Cloning Dolly, How and Why?
Transcript: Introducing Keith Campbell - Introduction by Pat Hunt PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University; faculty, MBL's Frontiers in Reproduction
Welcome to tonight's Friday night lecture. I am Pat Hunt, and I am one of the co-directors of the Frontiers in Reproduction Course, which is a 6-week course here, run at the MBL. And for the last three years our students have had the pleasure of having among their many instructors, tonight's speaker, Dr. Keith Campbell.
Keith is being let out of the lab tonight, but I have to tell you that this is only brief. So, we really have to watch the clock tonight because students are all waiting&he hasn't really completed his job across the street. My job is to keep him on schedule, and I have a big hook, which I will pull him off the stage with, and his students will then scuttle him out.
Seriously, we are really pleased to have him here tonight, and to be able to share him with a little larger audience than he has had here for the last 3 years. Let me give you a brief bio.
Keith got his bachelor's degree at Queen Elizabeth University in London. He then went on to graduate school at the University of Sussex, and that is when he fell in love with eggs and embryos--starting with the frog--and he has now moved up to higher organisms, as you well know.
He really doesn't need any introduction, because you all know that this is the man that cloned Dolly the sheep. And he did that after he got his degree when he went back up to Scotland, [to] the Roslin Institute.
What many of you may not know is that Dolly the sheep was not the first sheep that he cloned. He actually cloned several other sheep, which didn't receive quite the same amount of attention. The reason they didn't is because these sheep, unlike Dolly, were not cloned from an adult cell. That was the really major advance of Dolly, as he will tell us tonight.
Many scientists in the field said that this could not be done. Keith proved them wrong, and as I think all of you will agree, we all have very strong feelings about cloning--whether or not it should be done&whether or not humans should be cloned, etc. The man we have to thank for all of this is, of course, Dr. Keith Campbell..
But what is really interesting is not the feat itself--this was a major advance in the field--but like many major advances, it opened the door to many more questions than it answered.
What I hope you are going to learn tonight&I think you are going to learn tonight, if I ever give him the chance to talk&is that the cloning of Dolly, and how he did it, is important. But also, where we are going from here and what this advance means and what the questions are, is equally, if not more important.
So, let me take no more of his hour, because as I said, we have to get him back to the lab tonight. Let me, without any further ado, introduce you Dr. Keith Campbell, who is going to talk about cloning Dolly--how and why..
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