How Does an Egg Make an Organism?
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First Aired: 8/14/2006
54 minutes

Pioneering cell biologist Sir John Gurdon's ground-breaking studies in nuclear transplantation galvanized efforts to "clone" a mammal from an adult cell-a quest that in 1996 produced a healthy sheep named "Dolly." In this Hitchcock lecture he explores the process of going from egg to organism. (#11506)