This film documents a conversation between Sandy Starr (deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust, or PET, the charity that publishes BioNews) and Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (chair of trustees at PET) about embryo and stem cell research.
Professor Lovell-Badge chaired the task force that developed the latest guidelines of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (see BioNews 1097), and he discusses those guidelines here.
If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.
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| The main themes of the conversation are as follows. | |
| 00:00 | Background to stem cells |
| 01:57 | The International Society for Stem Cell Research |
| 03:02 | Dealing with rogue operators |
| 03:55 | How the guidelines work |
| 07:13 | Human embryos and the 14-day rule |
| 09:44 | Human embryos and the primitive streak |
| 10:41 | Why culture embryos for longer? |
| 12:35 | Stem-cell-based embryo models |
| 16:01 | Combining human and animal material |
| 18:31 | Predominantly human or predominantly animal? |
| 20:47 | Concluding thoughts |
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