Cleft Palate Research in Alligators

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Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
Launched in 2000, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive spans from 1897 to the present day and currently contains an ever-expanding catalogue of 13,000 items. It comprises material from a variety of depositors including feature films, sport, documentaries, animation, amateur footage, light entertainment, and a significant proportion of broadcast material from the UTV Archive.

Cleft Palate Research in Alligators


What do we have in common with alligators? Join Gerry Kelly in the City Hospital to find out as anatomist Mark Ferguson shares his fascinating research. Fresh from Louisiana he demonstrates how to catch alligators with an uncanny performance. After this enjoyable spectacle discover what our reptile relations can teach us about cleft palate. Through this research on reptile eggs Ferguson found that it was possible to surgically correct cleft palate in unborn alligators.


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