Stem Cell Debate Extends to Scientists

The stem cell debate.

The Eu Stem Cell Debate: Can Patenting Stem Cell Innovations

issued a preliminary and non-binding guidance opinion (‘the Opinion’) in the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the CJEU’) Case C-34/10 Professor Dr Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace eV, which has provoked numerous responses from both sides of the embryonic stem cell patenting debate. Oral proceedings took place at the CJEU in Luxembourg on 11 January 2011, before the entire Grand Chamber of 13...

Dear student: stem cell scientists' advice to the next generation.

For the field of pluripotent stem cell biology to realize its promising future, current researchers will need to pass the torch to new generations. We asked a group of successful scientists in this area, "What advice would you give a young person considering a career in stem cell research?"

Canadian Stem Cell Scientists Take the Prize

This year, the recipients of the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research are Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till. The landmark studies of McCulloch and Till in the 1960s defined the hallmark properties of stem cells: the ability to self-renew and differentiate.

Taking the Stem Cell Debate to the Public

In their essay in the April 2004 issue of PLoS Biology, Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley (2004), two distinguished cellular biologists and members of the President’s Council on Bioethics, strongly question the scientifi c foundation of two reports from the Council (President’s Council on Bioethics 2003, 2004). The Council on Bioethics was formed by executive order “to advise the President o...