Outlines

The exam assignment includes an article and a video from the same source. Although you are only required to summarise the video, we will provide you with summaries for both of the texts, so that you have an overall outline of the way the topic of human cloning is presented.

Video: Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning

Author: BBC News
Genre: Video
Year of Publication: 2013

The video is part of an article from BBC News published in 2013.

The video presents the opinion of Dr Lyle Armstrong from Newcastle University on the successful creation of embryonic stem cells.

He explains how the procedure was conducted. Researchers took a human egg cell, stripped out its genetic material, and inserted skin cell DNA from an adult. The embryo created developed to the stage in which stem cells can be extracted and further multiplied in a laboratory.

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Text: Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning

Author: James Gallagher
Genre: Article
Year of Publication: 2013

“Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning” is an article by James Gallagher published on the website of BBC News in 2013.

The article presents a new scientific development—the creation of human cloned embryos which developed to the stage at which stem cells can be collected. These stems cells can be used for multiple medical purposes because they can develop into almost any type of human cell or tissue.

So far, stem cells from donated embryos are used in medical trials to restore eyesight.

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