The Potential of Genetic and Stem Cell Therapies to Treat Disease
The Potential of Genetic and Stem Cell Therapies to Treat Disease
Doug Brutlag
Lecture Materials
Stem Cell Slides
Stem Cell Therapies Slides
Lecture Video
Stem Cell Policy Issues
AAAS Policy on Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
American Pregnancy Association: In Vitro Fertilization
Cancer Stem Cells
Dignitas Personai: The Catholic View
French Academy of Science - Stem Cell Pollicy
Genetics Policy Institute
Stem Cells and Cancer - The Economist
Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Stem Cell Ethics and Policy at Stanford
Stanford Magazines Review of Stem Cell Research Debate 2003
Proposition 71 and Stem Cell Article from San Francisco Magazine
Articles in the Press
Paralysed man walks again after stem cell transplant
A Bioethics Agenda by Eric Cohen
Leon Kass Response to Eric Cohen
Front Line Video on Stem Cells and Parkinsons (2009)
My Father, My Brother and Me
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s1dabq6c7&continuous=1
Important Literature References
Stem cell therapy recipient champions the research Stanford Research 1-19-12
Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency with defined factors Park et al, (2008) Nature 451, January 10, pp 141- 147.
Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors Takahashi et al. (2007) Cell 131, 861-872.
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells Yu et al, (2007) Science 318, 1917.
Strategies and New Developments in the Generation of Patient-Specific Pluripotent Stem Cells Yamanaka, REVIEW (2007) Cell Stem Cell 1. July 2007 pp 39- 49.
Stem Cell Niche: Structure and Function. Li and Xie (2005) Annual Review of Developmental Biologyh 21, p 606-663.
Stem Cell Therapeutics. Singrec et al. 2008 Stem Cells Vol 1 pp. 313-328.
Noninvasive diagnosis of fetal aneuploidy by shotgun sequencing DNA from maternal blood. Fan et al. (2008) PNAS 105, 16266-16271
Direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts to self-renewing, tripotent neural precursor cells Lujan et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 14;109(7):2527-32.