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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• DVD Release Date: November 2, 2006
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• ASIN: B000KC8M0S
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #276,191 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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First, Charlie hosts a panel discussion on the state of stem cell research and the heated political battle over federal funding. Joining Charlie are Senator Orrin Hatch who petitioned President Bush to ease restrictions, Eric Cohen, editor of "The New Atlantis", Dr. George Daley, associate director of the stem cell program at Boston Children's Hospital, and David Carmel, vice president of StemCyte. Then, Charlie hosts a panel discussion on the search for an AIDs vaccine in light of a major grant from the Gates Foundation toward the cause. Joining the discussion are Dr. Nicholas Hellman, the Interim Director of HIV, TB & Reproductive Health at the Gates Foundation as well as three researchers whose teams received funding, including Dr. David Ho, Director of the Aaron Diamond Research Center, Dr. Susan Zolla-Pazner, Director of AIDs Research at the New York VA Medical Center and Dr. Seth Berkley, Founder and President of the International AIDs Vaccine Initiative. The discussion focused on the difficulties in creating a vaccine, why the disease has progressed differently in the developed and developing worlds and the outlook for a breakthrough, among other issues.

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