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card #1
source: Gale
author: William P Hoar
page: 43 |
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Topic: The New American (magazine)
Note: Though stem cell research does hold great promise, stem cell research is not likely the just around the corner proposition it has been made out to be. |
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card # 2
source: Gale
author: William P Hoar
page: 43 |
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Topic: The New American (magazine)
Note: Even if it were true that embryonic stem cell research could lead to a cure for debilitating diseases, it is still wrong. |
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card #3
source: Gale
Author: William P Hoar
Page; 43 |
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Topic: The New American (magazine)
Note: The media ignores the fact that embryonic stem cell research entails the creation of human embryos. |
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card # 4
source: Gale
Author: William P Hoar
Page : 43 |
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Topic: The New American (magazine)
Note: Adult stem cells have been successful in bone marrow transplants and in treating leukemia. |
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card #5
Source: Gale
Author: William P Hoar
page:43 |
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Topic: The New American (magazine)
Note: To date, embryonic stem cells have not been successful. |
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card #6
source: Britannica
page: 11 |
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Topic: induced stem cells
Note: Supposedly embryonic stem cells are more promising, but haven't been successful while adult stem cells have been. |
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card #7
source: Britannica
page: 11 |
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Topic: Shinya Yamanaka
Note: Japanese physician found a method to insert specific genes into adult stem cells to create any type of connective tissue, also known as iPS cells. |
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card #8
source: Britannica
page : 11 |
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Topic: Induced pluripotent stem cells
Note: In 2009 scientists successfully generated retinal cells of the human eye by reprogramming adult stem cells. |
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card #9
source: Britannica
page: 11 |
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Topic: Health and Disease, stem cell research
Note: Embryonic stem cells are taken from fertility centers from frozen human embryos, already destined for destruction. |
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card # 10
source: Britannica
page:11 |
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Topic: Stem cell research
Note: Thousands of embryos have been tested on for over 20 years, with no signs of results. Thousands who could've grown up to cure diseases if given the chance to live. |
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card #11
source: Britannica
page:11 |
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Topic: Pluripotent stem cells
Note: Due to ethical issues with embryonic stem cells, scientists have discovered a way to make adult cells pluripotent. |
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card # 12
source: stemcellresearchfacts.org
date : October 21, 2011 |
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Topic: Why stem cells?
Note:A stem cell is essentially a “blank” cell, capable of becoming another more differentiated cell type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell, or a nerve cell. |
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card #13
source: stemcellresearchfacts.org
date : October 21, 2011 |
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Topic: Why stem cells?
Note : Though microscopic in size, stem cells are a big advance in science and medicine because they can be used to replace damaged cells in the body. |
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card #14
source: stemcellresearchfacts.org
date : October 21, 2011 |
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Topic : Why stem cells?
Note: Adult stem cells are natural, and don't murder a human being in order to get them. They are naturally in our bodies and can be used to cure diseases, and work better than embryonic stem cells. |
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card #14
source: stemcellresearchfacts.org
date: October 21, 2011 |
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Topic : Why stem cells?
Note:Most importantly, adult stem cells have already been successfully used in human therapies for many years. As of this moment, no therapies in humans have ever been successfully carried out using embryonic stem cells. |
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card #15
source: stemcellresearchfacts.org
date: October 21, 2011 |
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Topic : Why stem cells?
Note: In addition, new therapies using adult stem cells are being made all the time. |
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card #16
source: religioustolerence.org
date: October 21, 2011 |
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Topic: Human stem cell research: all viewpoints
Note: a consensus shows that embryos are alive. They contain human DNA, and are a thus a form of human life. |
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card #17
source: religioustolerence.org
date: October 21, 2011 |
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Topic: Human stem cell research: all viewpoints
Note: The controversy over embryonic stem cell research centers on whether human life in the form of an embryo less than two weeks after conception is also a human person. They clearly have the potential to become a newborn some 9 months in the future. |
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card #18
source: FoxNews.com
date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: The Cases For and Against Stem cell research
Note: life starts at the moment of conception, when a sperm fertilizes an egg, since a distinct organism has come into being. |
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card #19
source: FoxNews.com
date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Cases For and Against Stem cell Research
Note: In a July 1999 statement, 100 bioethicists, scientists and legal scholars said they objected to embryonic stem cell research on the grounds that such research is both unethical and unnecessary. |
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card #20
source: FoxNews.com
date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Cases for And Against Stem Cell Research
Note: Those who are opposed to this research also believe that their tax dollars should not go to supporting the research regardless of whether or not the research is permitted. |
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card #21
source: embryonicstemcellresearch.org
Date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research Facts
Note: Embryonic stem cells are cells that have been taken from an embryo, which is of course a fertilized egg and the very beginning of life form. |
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card #22
source: embryonicstemcellresearchfacts.org
date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research Facts
Note: The biggest argument against the research of embryonic stem cells is that it destroys, embryos, which could potentially be a life. |
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card #23
source: embryonicstemcellresearchfacts.org
date: October 23, 2011` |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research Facts
Note: Arguers against stem cell research say that the destruction of potential lives in the form of embryos is not only cruel, but pointless because embryonic stem cells have not yet cured any diseases. |
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card #24
Source: studentsforlife.com
Date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (hESC) is ethically wrong because it destroys human persons at the embryonic stage of development. |
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card #25
source: studentsforlife.org
Date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: Adult Stem Cell Research is ethically justifiable because it does NOT destroy lives. |
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card #26
source: studentsforlife.org
Date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: hESC Research has found no treatments or cures, rather ESCs cause tumors and cancer. Adult Stem Cell Research has found 77 treatments/cures. |
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card #27
source: studentsforlife.org
Date: October 23, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC). iPSCs have the advantages of hESCs, but do NOT kill humans at the embryonic stage of developmental. iPSCs are cells that possess the same pluripotent characteristics of embryonic stem cells |
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card #28
source: studentsforlife.org
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem cell research
Note: Since 1996 Congress has passed an amendment called the Dickey-Wicker Amendment which bans federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. In 2009, President Obama signed an Executive Order to begin federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. |
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card #29
source: nytimes.com
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: adult stem cell research is far more advanced than embryonic, though it was said it would never be as useful as embryonic. |
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card #30
source: physorg.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: stem cell research
Note: A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has developed a method that dramatically improves the efficiency of creating stem cells from human adult tissue, without the use of embryonic cells. The research makes great strides in addressing a major practical challenge in the development of stem-cell-based medicine. |
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card #31
source: health.usnews.com
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Why Embryonic Stem Cells are Obsolete
Note: Embryonic stem cells do not hold the promise they once were held to. Patients who were injected with stem cells from embryos and aborted babies got tumors and cancer in the same spot where they were injected. |
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card #32
source: health.usnews.com
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: The report describes a young boy with a fatal neuromuscular disease called ataxia telangiectasia, who was treated with embryonic stem cells. Within four years, he developed headaches and was found to have multiple tumors in his brain and spinal cord that genetically matched the female embryos used in his therapy. |
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card #33
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: stem cell research
note: His experience is neither an anomaly nor a surprise, but one feared by many scientists. These still-mysterious cell creations have been removed from the highly ordered environment of a fast-growing embryo, after all. |
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card #34
source: health.usnews.com
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: stem cell research
note: In fact, adult stem cells, which occur in small quantities in organs throughout the body for natural growth and repair, have become stars despite great skepticism early on. |
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card #35
source: health.usnews.com
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: stem cell research
note: Though this is a more difficult task, scientists have learned to coax them to mature into many cell types, like brain and heart cells, in the laboratory. |
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card #36
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: Such stem cells can be removed almost as easily as drawing a unit of blood, and they have been used successfully for years in bone marrow transplants. |
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card #37
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: To date, most of the stem cell triumphs that the public hears about involve the infusion of adult stem cells. |
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card #38
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic Stem cell research
Note: We've just recently seen separate research reports of patients with spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis benefiting from adult stem cell therapy. |
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card #39
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: These cells have the advantage of being the patient's natural own, and the worst they seem to do after infusion is die off without bringing the hoped-for benefit. They do not have the awesome but dangerous quality of eternal life characteristic of embryonic stem cells. |
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card #40
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: A second kind of stem cell that has triumphed is an entirely new creation called iPS (short for induced pluripotent stem cell), a blockbuster discovery made in late 2007. These cells are created by reprogramming DNA from adult skin. |
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card # 41
source: health.usnews.com
date: october 24, 2011 |
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Topic: stem cell research
Note: The iPS cells are embryonic-like in that they can turn into any cell in the body—and so bypass the need for embryos or eggs. |
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card #43
source: health.usnews.com
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: James Thompson, a man who worked on embryonic stem cell research in 1998 has said, already these reprogrammed cells have eclipsed the value of those harvested from embryos, because of significantly lower cost, ease of production, and genetic identity with the patient. |
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card #44
source: health.usnews.com
date: october 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: They also bring unique application to medical and pharmaceutical research, because cells cultivated from patients with certain diseases readily become laboratory models for developing and testing therapy. |
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card #45
source: health.usnews.com
date: october 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: That iPS cells overcome ethical concerns about creating and sacrificing embryos is an added plus. |
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card #46
source: health.usnews.com
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: The importance of stem cells for medical research has never been greater, and the scientific and public clamor for unimpeded research is fully understandable. |
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card #47
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: There is no need to destroy human life and embryos when stem cell research has had many advances in adult stem cells, and embryonic stem cells has actually caused more damage than good. |
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card #48
date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: Think of all the lives that have been destroyed from embryonic stem cell research. Out of the thousands, surely one was a genius that could cure diseases. |
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card #49
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: There is no reason to destroy life when stem cells can be derived from the umbilical cord as well, AFTER the baby is born. |
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card #50
Date: October 24, 2011 |
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Topic: Stem Cell Research
Note: New diseases are being cured every day with the use of adult stem cells. 77 have been found, and more are being found each day. |
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