WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT STEM CELL RESEARCH?

PART 1:   INTRODUCTION TO STEM CELL RESEARCH

Monday, Sept 14, 7 p.m. McMillan Theater [Campus Life Building]

Drs. Moss (biology), Moeller (biology) and Kay (philosophy) will each give short introductions to aspects of stem cell research, followed by discussion.

PART 2: POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON STEM CELL RESEARCH

Thursday, Sept 17, 7:30 p.m. McMillan Theater

Drs. Kay (philosophy) DeMars (government), McCane (religion) and Robinson (Chaplain) will each give short introductions to the political and religious issues, followed by discussion.

Seminar Documents:

• Dr. Moss' Powerpoint

  • CNN Video Clip

  • Summary

• Dr. Kay's Powerpoint

• Dr. Moeller's Powerpoint

  • Summary

References, for further reading:

• Alvarado A.S. (2009) A cellular view of regeneration. Nature 460: 39-40 

• Gilbert S.F., Tyler A.L., and Zachin E.J. (2005) Bioethics and the New Embryology. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer and Associates.

• Intro to stem cell research and drug discovery:             http://webs.wofford.edu/mossre/password/BIO212/papers/STEM_CELL_DRUGS.pdf

• Intro to stem cells and current research

  http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/07/stem-cell-science.html

   

•  Miura K. et al. (2009) Variation in the safety of induced pluripotent stem cell lines. Nature Biotechnology 27:743-745

• NIH:   http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics1.asp

•  Takahashi K. and Yamanaka S. (2006) Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors. Cell 126: 663-676

•  Yamanaka S. (2009) Elite and stochastic models for induced pluripotent stem cell generation. Nature 460: 49-52

• •Michael J. Sandel, “The Case Against Perfection,” The Atlantic, April 2004.  http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200404/sandel
  •Charles Krauthammer, “Stem Cell Vindication,” The Washington Post, November 30, 2007  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901878.html
  •Gina Kolata, “Man Who Helped Start Stem Cell War May End It,” The New York Times, November 22, 2007.  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/science/22stem.html
  •International Academy of Humanism, “Declaration in Defense of Cloning and the Integrity of Scientific Research,” Free Inquiry, Volume 17, Number 3 (Summer, 1997).  http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=index_17
  •Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini, From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder that Inspired the Greatest Scientists of All Time In Their Own Words (Templeton Press, 2009).  http://www.templetonpress.org/book.asp?book_id=138
  •Luigi Giussani, The Religious Sense (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997).  http://www.amazon.com/Religious-Sense-Luigi-Giussani/dp/0773516263/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253201334&sr=1-3
  •Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions,” The Holy See, September 8, 2008. http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20081208_dignitas-personae_en.html

  David Nirenberg, “Love and Capitalism,” Review of Caritas In Veritate: On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth, by Pope Benedict XVI, The New Republic, September 23, 2009.  http://www.tnr.com/magazine-issue/september-23-2009

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