Adult vs. Embryonic Stem Cells
One of the most
public medical issues facing this country is the use of stem
cells for research and disease prevention and cure. When
most Americans hear stem cells, they believe that stem cells
only occur in embryos. The debate
then rages concerning the use of embryos; is it wrong to end
what some consider life, is it right to create embryos just to
test and harvest stem cells, is harvesting stem cells from
embryos really abortion? What many
people do not know is that there are two types of stem cells:
adult and embryonic. Should adult
stem cells be used instead of embryonic ones? This is both
a scientific and a political question. Focus your paper on
this question, not on
whether it is moral to use embryonic stem cells.
General/News:
The Washington Post, 19 Aug 2004
The Center for Bioethics and Human
Diversity
Stem Cell Research Foundation
UW-Madison News
The American Physiological Society
The International Society for Stem Cell Research
Please beware as some of these links may contain rhetoric and
information provided in a way to encourage you to take a side. Please consider all the information
that is available and also do your own research.
These links should only serve to guide you, you will have
to make your own decisions and assumptions from the information
available.