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| Podcast title | PRI's The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies
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| Description | The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies. In this special series, which aired in April 2005, we looked at progress in stem cell research, with stories from China, Israel, Britain and the U.S. Winner of Alfred I. duPont 2006 Broadcast News Award. Series Editor David Baron. The World is a US-based international news and analysis program co-produced by the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH Public Radio in Boston. | |
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1. The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part One: Primer on Stem Cell Research http://media.theworld.org/mp3/... download (audio/mp3, 4.21Mb) Description: The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd delivers a primer on stem cell research, chronicling its history in the United States. Since 2001, the Federal government has funded embryonic stem cell research in the United States -- but with strict limits. There are few restrictions, however, on research conducted in the private sector. |
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2. The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Two: Britain http://media.theworld.org/mp3/... download (audio/mp3, 3.92Mb) Description: For many years now in Britain, a governmental body has strictly regulated all work involving embryos. Clark Boyd turns his attention to Britain's Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, which some scientists consider a model for how the U.S. should regulate this field of research. |
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3. The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Three: China http://media.theworld.org/mp3/... download (audio/mp3, 3.39Mb) Description: China's stem cell program, like the Chinese economy, is moving ahead rapidly. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports that Chinese research has strong support and heavy investment from the government, and often with knowledge and experience picked up by top Chinese researchers in the U.S. Use of aborted fetuses does not raise much controversy in China's Confucian culture, where human life is seen to begin at birth, not at conception. |
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4. The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies, Part Four: Israel http://media.theworld.org/mp3/... download (audio/mp3, 2.28Mb) Description: Religious views play a role in Israel's stem cell program. The World's Aaron Schachter concludes the series by examining how the Judaic duty to care for the sick trumps ethical concerns over the rights of embryos created in the laboratory. |
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