21. Stem Cell Topic: The Enormous Potential Value of Stem Cell Research
grown in a laboratory from stem cells would be of enormous value for cardiomyocytes to renew heart muscle to
prevent congestive heart failure; replacement of hematopoietic stem cells for producing healthy blood in bone
marrow to resist
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22. Stem Cell Topic: Question: is There a Potential Baby in Every Body Cell?
the source for pluripotent
cells.
Then
we would experience a shift in ethical ground tantamount to an earthquake.
Initially and naively, we could breathe a sigh of relief. If laboratory
scientists are no longer tempted to harvest stem cells
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23. Stem Cell Topic: Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Many nervous system diseases result
from loss of nerve cells. Mature nerve
cells cannot divide to replace those that are lost. Thus, without a new source of functioning nerve tissue, no
therapeutic
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24. Stem Cell Topic: Question: Will Stem Cell Research Encourage an Increase in ...
could generate enough stem cells in culture to
preclude constant demand for more and more tissue. In sum, stem cell research
as presently understood should have a negligible impact on IVF or abortion
practices.
The
Ethics Advisory Board
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25. Stem Cell Topic: The Clinical Potentials for Stem Cell Products
of different kinds of stem cells will become better
understood. As the science is
understood now, adult stem cells are limited in their potential to
differentiate. Embryonic germ cells
have a great differentiation capacity, and embryonic
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26. Stem Cell Topic: Ethics Influencing Science?
Is it because totipotent cells have a genetic
potential lacking in pluripotent cells? No. What distinguishes them is that
totipotent cells have access to a placenta making them available for
implantation; whereas pluripotent stem cells lack
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27. Stem Cell Topic: The Stem Cell Debate: Ethical Questions
or not the public will add stem cells to the fuel to make those fires
burn hotter remains to be seen.
Stem
cells have become front page news in Australia, as well as in the United States
and other countries. On February 4, 1999, the
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28. Stem Cell Topic: Justice Considerations
potential of stem cells for treating and possibly curing many
serious diseases constitutes a major rationale for large-scale investments of
public and private resources in human stem cell research. To justify doing so, however,
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29. Stem Cell Topic: Public Sector Oversight
personally non-identifiable stem
cells does not pose any special ethical or over-sight challenges, an elaborate
system of review is in place for research involving human subjects. The Federal Common Rule governing human subjects research provides
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30. Stem Cell Topic: Intellectual Property Considerations
that purified and isolated stem cells are
patentable subject matter. According to the PTO, stem cell products and
research tools meet the three criteria for patentability: novelty, utility, and
non-obviousness.
When research
is funded
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