Cloning Dolly, How and Why?
Transcript Part 1
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Well, thanks Pat. It is a pleasure to be here, and I am glad you have given up this lovely summer evening--which is something that we don't get very often in England--and you have come in here to listen to me, rather than sitting outside with a beer or something, watching the sunset.
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What I am going to try and do tonight, is give you sort of a quick, brief overview of cloning, what it is, why people started to look into cloning, what we have been doing with it, what we have been trying to do with it, and some of the bad points, what we hope to be able to do with it,. and some of the things we don't want people to do with it |
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So without further ado...this is the lady that started all the controversy, and as Pat said, this wasn't the first sheep that we actually cloned at the Roslin Institute. This is actually Dolly's first lamb, which was born by natural means rather than by cloning. |
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And two other sheep--notably here, Megan and Morag, we cloned the year before. Some of the reason it didn't hit the headlines so much, is more due to the press than due to the science. In fact, these two sheep were on the front cover of every major British newspaper the week that we cloned them--with headlines. |
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