Podcast: SciCafe Covers the Future of Stem Cells

Thursday, April 08 3:31 pm

The American Museum of Natural History’s ongoing SciCafe, an exciting new after-hours series that brings together inquisitive minds for an evening of cocktails and discussion emceed by experts on cutting-edge science topics, explored the topic ‘The Future of Stem Cells’ on April 7, 2010.

What if your cells could be engineered to grow your own replacement organs? Professor Kristin Baldwin, of the Scripps Research Department of Cell Biology, provided a glimpse at the future of medicine as she discussed cutting-edge stem cell technologies. In an experiment that paid homage to Woody Allen’s film Sleeper, Baldwin cloned an entire mouse from a single neuron from its nose.

Podcast: Download | RSS | iTunes (47 mins, 43 MB)

You can find out more information on AMNH’s SciCafe at http://www.amnh.org/programs/scicafe/