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Fake Stem Cell Research Work May Cost
Korean Industry Billions
Heejin Koo & William Sim,
News & Commentary: Top Worldwide,
Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg L.P.
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Fat stem cells heal broken skulls
Philip Cohen, Breaking News,
NewScientist.com news service, NewScientist.com
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Future of Stem Cell Research: Rapid Progress
Dr. Patrick Dixon, globalchange.com, Global Change Ltd.
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Pros And Cons Of Stem Cell Research
AllAboutPopularIssues.org
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Stem Cells in Biomedicine ... with a Flavor of Bioethics
An introduction to stem cell research
from both biomedical and bioethical points of view.
Dr. Mugur A. Roz, MD, Ph.D., Harvard-MIT
Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST)
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Stem Cell Information
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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Stem Cell Research & Applications: Scientific,
Ethical, and Policy Issues
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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SOUTH KOREAN STEM CELL PIONEER CALLED A FAKE
Karen Kaplan & Thomas H. Maugh II,
Main News,
National Desk, Los Angeles Times,
courtesy of Ride For Life online &
Ride For Life, Inc.
[29 December 2005]
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH
Bill Frist, MD, United States Senator,
Senate Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions Committee
Statement
courtesy of Free Republic [ 29 July 2005 ]
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Identifying Blood Stem Cells Is a SLAM Dunk
BioExchange, Inc. [ 1 July 2005 ]
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Race to Human Stem-Cell Trials
Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News,
CondéNet, Inc.
[ 19 April 2005 ]
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Transplantation of monkey embryonic stem cells reverses Parkinson disease in primates
BioExchange, Inc. [ 3 January 2005 ]
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UCSD Discovery Shows How Embryonic Stem Cells Perform ‘Quality Control’ Inspections
Kim McDonald, Science & Engineering,
UCSD Press Release,
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
[ 26 December 2004 ]
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The Stem Cell Challenge
Robert Lanza & Nadia Rosenthal, Biotechnology,
Scientific American.com,
Scientific American, Inc.
[ June 2004 ]
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The world today has become one in which
technology, riding on the back of scientific advance, appears to lead
societal evolution. Travel and communication are two of the areas
in which this is profoundly evident. Advances in travel now allow anyone
to span distances in hours that, a century and a half ago, required weeks
or months to traverse. Communication is instantaneous and omnipresent
throughout most regions of the world.
Medicine is undergoing an explosive revolution, both in the treatment and
eradication of disease and in the improvement of the human condition.
In the past, for example, loss of a limb would have condemned a person to
a life of diminished activity and, in some cases, social ostracism. Today,
even in many under-developed countries, such a loss can be overcome with
technology and modern medical science. Evidence is strong that, in the
near future, even such personal catastrophies as a severed spinal cord may
be either reparable or surmountable through computer- and servo-augmented
mechanical systems.
Spaceflight, still in its infancy, promises Mankind the ability to one day
travel to the stars and colonize other planets. At the time President
Kennedy issued his famous challenge to place a man on the Moon, the
technology and expertise necessary to do so did not exist. The achievement
of that goal is one of the greatest triumphs in exploration ever conceived
— how it was accomplished is the story of Man’s struggle
with and mastery of technology to expand his frontiers.
Each major advance in technology brings with it a new set of challenges.
Major issues confronting societies throughout the world today are the
responsible and ethical application of technology, how to deal with the
byproducts of a technological revolution driven by economics, and the need
to bring technology-derived benefits to people at all social and economic
levels. A less understood but more subtle problem is that of
integrating the reality of scientific and technological advance with
long-held social and religious doctrines.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 3 June 2003, updated 27 August
2003.
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