Stem Cell Research

Authors: Goulet, Marie-Claude ; Freedman, Benjamin ; Balk, Roger A. ; Macer, Darryl
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the use of embryonic stem cells (ES cells) to create new genetic strains of animals. Questions whether or not it is ethical for research using ES cells to proceed, given the effects of the research on the animals involved ...
Year: 1991

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Authors: White, Gladys B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the human stem cell research conducted in the United States. Ethical guidelines for all researchers in the area; How individual research protocols be reviewed and approved; Extent of the involvement of infertility treatme...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Tauer, Carol A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Evaluates the performance of Geron Ethics Advisory Board (EAB) as a corporately sponsored review board. Most troubling aspect of the work of the Geron EAB on human embryonic stem cells (hES); Concern on the absence of prior review f...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Steinbock, Bonnie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses ways to derive human pluripotent cells without killing human embryos. Problem in obtaining stem cells from dead embryos; Impetus of the proposal to derive stem cell lines from single cells extracted from early embryos; Inf...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0049

Authors: Robert, Jason Scott ; Baylis, Françoise
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: The article discusses the reactions of stem cell scientists in the U.S. regarding the voluntary guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research published by the National Academy of Sciences. Research activities on the use of human...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0114

Authors: McGee, Glenn ; Caplan, Arthur L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the conclusions of Geron's Ethics Advisory Board on the benefits of stem cells research. Failure of the Geron's report to elaborate the issues associated with the moral status of human stem cells; Distinction between ste...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Magnus, David
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Provides an update and defense on the stem cell initiative of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine as of February 2006. Issues regarding the development of policies to protect the intellectual property of human stem ce...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0014

Authors: Lauritzen, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Argues that if stem cell interventions materialize along the lines described by their more avid proponents, it might upend our current ethical commitments, or at least undercut our commitment to them, in part because they might incl...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0026

Authors: Knowles, Lori P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on Geron's Ethics Advisory Board's (EAB) report on the potential medical uses of embryonic stem cells (hES cells). Difficulty in categorizing human embryos; Question on who will profit in the commercialization of hES; Benef...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Kimmelman, Jonathan ; Baylis, Françoise ; Glass, Kathleen Cranley
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses ethical issues regarding clinical trials on gene therapy research. Therapeutic misconception of patient on gene transfer trials; Assumptions of experts on the scientific aspects and medical risks associated with stem cell ...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0012

Authors: Kahn, Jeffrey P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article examines lessons for the policy environment of stem cell research in the U.S. A range of ethical, legal and policy issues arose when advances in technology allowed solid organs to be transplanted. Existing policy concern...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0025

Authors: Johnston, Josephine
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article focuses on the availability of guidelines for the conduct of human embryonic stem cell research in the U.S. as released by the National Academy of Sciences. The need of institutions, researchers and potential funders for...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0109

Authors: Hurlbut, William B. ; George, Robert P. ; Grompe, Markus
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article presents a clarification and defense on altered nuclear transfer (ANT). It says that the idea behind ANT is the production of pluripotent stem cells without the creation and destruction of human embryos. A broader moral ...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0079

Authors: Insoo, Hyun
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the controversy on a research being done by Doctor Woo Suk Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University in South Korea regarding the transformation of human eggs through the wonder of somatic cell nuclear transfer. Fi...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0025

Authors: Insoo, Hyun ; Kyu Won, Jung
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article argues that human blastocysts created by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or in vitro fertilization are, by definition, not obtained from the union of sperm and egg. A means for deriving pluripotent human stem cells ...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0080

Authors: Hall, Stephen S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses ethical issues regarding embryonic stem cell research in the U.S. Bioethical dilemmas associated with stem cell research; Social impact of U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to issue federal research grants for the r...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0009

Authors: Greenfield, Debra
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Focuses on issues behind the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act. Amount of money that the initiative seeks to grant for the stem cell research; Information on a web site on stem cell research developed by the proponents of ...
Year: 2004

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Authors: Faden, Ruth R. ; Bateman-House, Alison S. ; Agnew, Dawn Mueller ; Bok, Hilary ; Brock, Dan W. ; Dawson, Liza ; Chakravarti, Aravinda ; Xiao-Jiang, Gao ; Greene, Mark ; Hansen, John A. ; King, Patricia A. ; O'Brien, Stephen J. ; Sachs, David H. ; Verfaillie, Catherine M. ; Schill, Kathryn E. ; Siegel, Andrew ; Solter, Davor ; Suter, Sonia M. ; Walters, LeRoy B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Addresses the problem of biological access in reference to questions of social justice in stem cell research and therapy. Rejection and the theoretical solution of autologous grafts; Alternative strategies for addressing rejection a...
Year: 2003

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Authors: Insoo, Hyun
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article explores some of the ethical challenges that could undermine human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) research. It discusses several ethical factors that should be considered when conducting an iPS research. It asserts ...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2008.0004

Authors: McLaren, Anne
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Discusses the ethical, moral and social considerations in stem cell research. Ethics of the destructive harvesting of stem cells from human embryo; Moral value of embryos donated for research; Possibility for stem cell research to f...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1038/35102194

Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Asserts that a report from a European ethics committee gives a valuable summary of the issues surrounding stem-cell research. Conclusion of the committee that the creation of embryos by somatic-cell nuclear transfer for research on ...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1038/35042706

Authors: Copland, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Comments on the article previously published in the 'Nature' journal about ethics and science. Requirement to be consistent and empirically justified in interpreting the actions of scientists; Reactions of non-specialist observers t...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1038/425121a

Authors: Rubin, Lisa Marie ; VA Western New York Healthcare System, Formulary Management
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Using a combination of directed case method and role-playing in which students learn about their roles using the jigsaw technique, this case study teaches about the main concepts of stem cell research and therapy and the political a...
Year: 2003
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=558&id=558

Authors: McCain, Elizabeth R. ; Muhlenberg College, Biology Department
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Thirty-one-year-old Eric has begun to show signs of the debilitating and fatal neuromuscular disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Students follow Eric as he is examined by his physician and the...
Year: 2005
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=278&id=278

Authors: University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Division of Biological and Health Sciences ; Yaich, Lauren E.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Samantha and her husband Brad have two children, conceived with the help of in vitro fertilization treatments. After viewing a TV program on stem cells and their potential medical uses, Samantha is convinced that they should donate ...
Year: 2002
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=445&id=445