Printable Handouts

PDF

Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. What is a stem cell
3. Sources of stem cells
4. Adult stem cells
5. Embryonic stem cells
6. Why are stem cells so important?
7. Cell and tissue therapy
8. Ethical concerns - personal ethics
9. Ethical concerns - research ethics
10. The first two weeks of human development
11. Views on moral status of the human embryo
12. Where are human ESCs research prohibited?
13. Where are human ESCs research permitted?
14. Options for spare embryos (fresh or frozen)
15. Making embryos for research
16. Human fertilisation and embryology act
17. Countries allowing embryo research
18. What is an embryo
19. Making embryos for research
20. Possible sources of oocytes
21. No. of eggs recovered varies with hormone dose
22. In vitro maturation of immature or primary oocytes
23. Oogenesis
24. Animal oocytes and oocytes derived from ESC
25. Making PGC from embryonic stem cells
26. Somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning technology)
27. Stem cell therapy: graft compatibility
28. Cloning for stem cells
29. Graft compatibility - other approaches
30. Ethical concerns
31. Social ethics
32. Reproductive cloning
33. Conclusions

Topics Covered

• Stem cell biology
• Therapeutic possibilities
• Ethical concerns
• Personal ethics
• Research ethics
• Moral status of human embryo
• "Spare" embryos
• Research embryos
• Nuclear transfer embryos
• Legal situation in different countries
• Social ethics

Links

Series:

• Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Categories:

• Cell Biology
• Clinical Practice
• Pharmaceutical Sciences

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Dame Anne McLaren has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.