The East Anglian Film Archive, the UK's first regional film archive, offers a unique record of the East of England's social and cultural history. As part of the University of East Anglia, we continue to lead moving image heritage research and inspire audience participation through community projects and events. Our collections represent a broad range of amateur and professional creativity, from 1896 to the present day.
Margaret Stanley and George Lamberty at Addenbrooke's Hospital describe benefits from growing skin in the laboratory.
Interviews about the potential benefits of skin culture developments at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. No patients are shown, but the technique of growing skin in a laboratory will improve the recovery prospects for patients with burns and other skin injuries.
Dr Margaret Stanley talks about the unique qualities of each person's skin, and how far the laboratory-grown skin will retain those characteristics, based on her research interest in 'what determines a cell to do what?' Plastic surgeon George Lamberty explains how this can improve upon the current treatment with skin grafts. The reporter was John Kiddey for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
In recent years Margaret Stanley is an Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology in the Department of Pathology at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Her main research interest is the pathogenesis of HPV human papillomavirus and she leads a research group focusing on the prevention and treatment of HPV, which causes cervical cancer. She advises the UK government on the HPV vaccine and other aspects of public health, food safety and animal health policies.
George Lamberty was Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital 1982 - 2008 and has published widely-used textbooks and won many awards in his field. He was Consultant Civilian Advisor to the RAF 1989 - 2005.
Their future, our now: explore how earlier generations imagined the world we're living in today.
For anyone living in the later years of the 20th century, it felt like the future was arriving unusually fast. As computers, once huge behemoths that filled rooms, began to shrink to desktop size, they quickly spread into every arena of society, spreading out from university labs and industry giants to ordinary offices, schools and into the home. Meanwhile astonishing advances in robotics, genetics, materials, transport and entertainment all offered glimpses of a brave new world. Just trying to keep up with this revolution was dizzying, never mind making sense of it.
What did it all mean? What did the future hold - for our work, our leisure, our health, our food, our relationships? How would technology change us as people? Would it be the kind of future we'd want? Nobody could say for sure, but there were plenty of people willing to speculate. And now that their future is our present, it's fascinating to look back and judge for ourselves how right - or how wrong - they were.
