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World Service,01 Apr 1999,24 mins

The Human Cloning Debate

Science In Action

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The cloning debate from different points of world view. In London, Dr Harry Griffin who worked on Dolly the cloned sheep, says using that technology to clone a human "should be unthinkable". Dr Richard Seed in the USA believes he can clone a human safely, but the Latin Americans might beat him to it. In Cape Town, Solly Benatar explains why Africans have many other biomedical problems to solve. The latest research into DNA is into its electrical properties. How tea may combat tumors. Finally, the weather forecast for the northern hemisphere of Uranus: winds of 300 kmph.

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