PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Consequentialism, Thought Experiment, Adult Stem Cell
23 Apr 2016
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Sir john b. gurdon and shinya yamanaka received nobel prize in 2012 for the discovery that mature stem cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. Basic research in human development: important because scientists want to know how we, humans, develop from a singular cellular structure (this would answer questions about aging, injuring and disease): 2. Safer and more specific drug development: we can grow organs from the cells of different people and test different drugs and therapies on these organs, as opposed to using lab animals (will increase precision, etc. : 3. Regenerative medicine: the most attention; repair or replace damaged organs; cure incurable diseases. Katerien devolder- creating and sacrificing embryos for them cells . Deriving stem cells from spare ivf embryos: the defenders of the dcd position often quote such principles as: Devolder: none of those principles, however, justifies the dcd position; they only express why one may want embryonic stem cell research (escr) to continue.
