Promise
and Pitfalls of
Stem Cell Research
September
24, 2005
Senator Deborah Ortiz, Chair of the California
State Senate Health and Human Services Committee, was
among the featured distinguished panelists which also
included Dr. Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, professor
of cellular and molecular medicine at the University
of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and a
leader in stem cell research; Dr. Ted Peters,
pastor and professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological
Seminary, Berkeley, California, and ethicist on the
stem cell citizen's oversight committee, and Dr.
Irving Weissman, immunologist, professor, and Director
of the Stem Cell Institute at Stanford University,
School of Medicine. The panel was moderated by Geoffrey
Cowan, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communications
at University of Southern California.
In association
with this program, a small special exhibit entitled Stem
Cells and You will be featured at the Science Center
through January 2, 2006. It addresses the questions of “What
is a stem cell?”, “Stem Cells in Medicine” and “Why
study stem cells?”
Click
here to download Dr. Goldstein's PowerPoint presentation
(1.7MB).
Resources for Further Reading
Magazine Articles
- The Future of Stem Cells
Special Report – Scientific
American and Financial Times
Scientific American, July 2005
- The Stem Cell Debate
Time, August 20, 2000
Websites
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