God and the public square by Dann, G. Elijah

Table of Contents: “…-- Same-sex marriage -- Abortion -- Embryonic stem-cell research -- Euthanasia.…”
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Embryo politics : ethics and policy in Atlantic democracies by Banchoff, Thomas F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of ethical controversy -- First embryo research regimes -- The ethics of embryonic stem cell research -- Stem cell and cloning politics.…”
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Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- List of Contributors -- Stem Cell-based Modalities: From Basic Biology to Integration and Regeneration -- Ruodan Xu1,Â, Wenjin Shi2,Â, Pingping Nie2,Â, Runzhe Chen3,Â, Ning Li4, Mehdi Razavi5, Wanting Niu6,7,* and Abdulmonem Alshihri8,9,* -- INTRODUCTION -- EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS -- Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells -- Establishment of Embryonic Stem Cell Lines -- New Strategies for Deriving Embryonic Stem Cells -- Embryonic Stem Cells versus Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells -- SOMATIC STEM CELLS -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells…”
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What Is a Stem Cell?

Table of Contents: “…(2:15) -- Moral and Biological Issues in Stem Cell Therapy (1:09) -- Creating Embryonic Stem Cells (2:50) -- IPS Cells- Proceed With Caution (1:31) -- Mmesenchymal Stem Cells (3:45) -- Non-Healing Bones (1:54)…”
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Biomedical ethics

Table of Contents: “…General introduction -- The professional-patient relationship -- Contested therapies and biomedical enhancement -- Human and animal research -- Death and decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment -- Suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and active euthanasia -- Abortion and embryonic stem-cell research -- Genetics and human reproduction -- Social justice and access to health care.…”

Stem cells research compendium. Volume 2

Table of Contents: “…An Analysis of the Arguments Underpinning UK Embryonic Stem Cell Legislation on the Embryo's StatusAbstract; Introduction; Embryo Research before 1990; The Introduction of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; The Debate about Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Cell Nuclear Replacement; Should Early Embryos Be Granted Moral Status?…”
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Stem Cell Ethics

Table of Contents: “…(1:41) -- Comparing Skin Cells with Embryos (1:09) -- Divided From Church by Hope of Science (3:11) -- Should Embryonic Stem Cell Research Continue? (1:40)…”
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Contemporary issues in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…Reproductive technologies and human embryonic stem cell research -- Pt. V. Public health -- Ch. 9. …”

Mainline Christians and U.S. public policy : a reference handbook by Utter, Glenn H.

Table of Contents: “…Watkins -- Data and documents -- Data overview of the mainline denominations -- Religious beliefs and policy preferences -- Documents and quotations -- Equality and poverty -- Public schools -- Mainline political engagement -- Sexuality issues -- Immigration -- Faith-based initiative -- Iraq War -- Science -- Abortion -- Embryonic stem-cell research -- End-of-life decisions, the right to die, and euthanasia -- Environment -- Death penalty -- Directory of organizations -- Resources.…”
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Stem cell research

Table of Contents: “…Heller -- Women, commodification, and embryonic stem cell research / Susan Dodds.…”
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Therapy with cultured cells by Green, Howard, 1925-2015

Table of Contents: “…The Promise of Therapy with Embryonic Stem Cells; A Final Philosophical Reflection; References; Index.…”
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Perspectives in stem cell research

Table of Contents: “…PERSPECTIVES IN STEM CELL RESEARCH; PERSPECTIVES IN STEM CELL RESEARCH ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; STEM CELL RESEARCH* ; SUMMARY ; OVERVIEW OF BASIC RESEARCH AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS ; Stem Cells from Embryos or Fetal Tissue ; Stem Cells from Adult Tissue or Umbilical Cord Blood ; Potential Applications of Stem Cell Research ; Current Federal Regulatory Landscape ; State Legislation on Embryonic Stem Cell Research ; Congressional Actions ; International Actions on Embryonic Stem Cell Research ; Ethical Issues ; REFERENCES ; CANCER STEM CELLS ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; STEM CELLS.…”
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Ethical issues in modern medicine : contemporary readings in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Moral Reasoning in the Medical Context -- Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship: -- Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models -- Informed Consent and Truth-Telling -- Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities -- Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy: -- Justice, Health, and Health Care -- Allocating Scare Resources -- Organ Transplantation: Gifts Versus Markets -- Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders -- Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia: -- Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment -- Advance Directives -- Choosing for Once-Competent Patients -- Choosing for Never-Competent Patients -- Physician-Assisted Death -- Life, Death, and Moral Status: -- The Significance of Death -- The Morality of Abortion -- Embryonic Stem-Cell Research -- Reproduction: -- Procreative Responsibility -- Assisted Reproduction -- Reproductive Cloning -- Experimentation on Human Subjects: -- Born in Scandal: The Origins of U.S. …”

Methods in Bioengineering. by Parekkadan, Biju

Table of Contents: “…1.3.9 Embryo culture and embryo transfer1.4 Derivation of Mouse ntES Cells; 1.5 Materials for Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation; 1.6 Methods for Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation; 1.6.1 Derivation of ntES cells; 1.6.2 In vitro characterization of ntES cells; 1.6.3 In vivo characterization of ntES cells; 1.7 Discussion and Commentary; 1.8 Summary Points; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2 Derivation of Mouse Parthenogenetic Embryonic Stem Cells; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Materials; 2.2.1 Reagents; 2.2.2 Equipment; 2.2.3 Media recipe; 2.3 Methods; 2.3.1 Generation of p(MI) embryos.…”
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Cardiovascular Regeneration and Stem Cell Therapy. by Leri, Annarosa

Table of Contents: “…Cardiovascular Regeneration and Stem Cell Therapy; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I Stem cell biology; 1 Homing of stem cells and tissue injury; 2 Adult stem cell plasticity: lineage potential on a continuum; 3 Embryonic stem cells and cardiogenesis; 4 Mesenchymal stem-cell-derived cardiomyogenic cells; 5 Bone marrow cells and vascular growth; 6 Progenitor cells and vascular repair; Part II Cardiac progenitor cells in the adult heart; 7 Cardiac side population cells: phenotype and functional significance; 8 Phenotype and function of c-kit+ -derived amplifying myocytes.…”
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Developmental and stem cellbiology in health and disease.

Table of Contents: “…Morphogenetic Changes of the Ectodermal Germ LayerMorphogenetic Changes of the Mesodermal Germ Layer; Morphogenetic Changes of the Endodermal Germ Layer; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; Introduction ; Embryonic Sources of Stem Cell Lines; Non-Embryonic Sources of Stem Cell Lines; Embryonic Stem Cell Generation and Fate; Clinical Application of Embryonic Stem Cells; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Gene and Signals Regulating Stem Cell Fates ; INTRODUCTION; THE HIERARCHY OF HEMATOPOIETIC CELLS; REGULATION OF HEMATOPOIESIS; CYTOKINES: A KEY REGULATOR OF HSCS.…”
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The human trial

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Stem cells by Taupin, Philippe

Table of Contents: “…Neural progenitor and stem cells in the adult central nervous system -- Neurogenesis in the adult central nervous system -- BrdU immunohistochemistry for studying adult neurogenesis : paradigms, pitfalls, limitations, and validation -- Derivation of embryonic stem cells for cellular therapy : challenges and new strategies -- OTI-010 osiris therapeutics/JCR pharmaceuticals -- Adult neural stem cells, neurogenic niches, and cellular therapy -- The therapeutic potential of adult neural stem cells -- Stem cells engineering for cell-based therapy -- Adult neurogenesis pharmacology in neurological diseases and disorders -- Adult neurogenesis, neuroinflammation and therapeutic potential of adult neural stem cells -- Adult neurogenesis and neuroplasticity -- HuCNS-SC stemcells -- Conclusion and perspectives.…”
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African perspectives on some contemporary bioethics problems by Tangwa, Godfrey B.

Table of Contents: “…Fundamental principles of ethics -- The traditional African perception of a person : some implications for bioethics -- Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics -- Traditional medicine -- How not to compare Western scientific medicine with African traditional medicine -- Assisted reproduction technologies (ART) and African sociocultural practices, worldview, belief and value systesms : with particular reference to Francophone Africa -- Moral status of embryonic stem cells : perspective of an African villager -- Third party assisted conception : an African perspective -- The universal and the particular in current discussions of international bio-medical ethical guidelines -- Research with vulnerable human beings -- Ethics, human rights and sexual/reproductive health in Africa : exploratory socio-cultural considerations -- Leaders in ethics education : Godfrey B. …”
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Bioethics : issues and dilemmas

Table of Contents: “…Childress and the Danish philosophers Jakob Rendtorff and Peter Kemp / Mette Ebbesen -- Oophorectomy specimens as a potential source of oocytes for human embryonic stem cell research / MiKyung Kim and Kyu Won Jung.…”
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Essentials of single-cell analysis : concepts, applications and future prospects

Table of Contents: “…Single Cell Behavioral Assays for Heterogeneity Studies -- Systems biology in single cells -- Electroporation for single cell analysis -- Microinjection for single cell analysis -- Optical tools for single cell manipulation and analysis -- Optoelectrokinetic manipulation for cell analysis -- Continuous micro/nano-fluidic devices for single cell analysis -- Single Cell Mechanical Properties: Label-Free Biomarkers for Cell Status Evaluation -- Cytometry of single cells for biology and biomedicine -- Single cell genomics and epigenomics -- Single cell Metabolomics -- Applications of cell based drug delivery systems: use of single cell assay -- Applications of Single Cell Sequencing in Cancer -- Single Cell Characterization of Microalgal Lipid Contents with Confocal Raman Microscopy -- Single Differentiated Neurons from Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells: Motor Protein Modelling and Neurodegenerative Disease.…”
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Global Perspectives on Science and Religion. by Das, Pranab

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Pranab Das -- The puzzle of consciousness and experiential primacy : agency in cognitive sciences and spiritual experiences / Sangeetha Menon -- Religion, science, and lebenswelt : new interdisciplinary crossroads / Ilya Kasavin -- Science and spirituality in modern India / Makarand Paranjape -- Kokoro [mind-heart-spirit] : affirming science and religion in the Japanese context / Paul Swanson -- Daoism and the uncertainty principle / Jiang Sheng -- Whitehead reconsidered from a Buddhist perspective / Ryusei Takeda -- Sanctity of life : a reflection on human embryonic stem cell debates from an east Asian perspective / Heup Young Kim -- Aut Moses, aut Darwin? …”
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Stem cell research and science : background and issues

Table of Contents: “…Legal issues related to human embryonic stem cell research -- Stem cell research: ethical issues -- Stem cell research: federal research funding and oversight -- Testimony to be presented to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health by Joseph R. …”
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New Arrhythmia Technologies. by Wang, Paul J.

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Bioethics and the future of stem cell research by Hyun, Insoo, 1970-

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Frontline. My father, my brother, and me

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Somatic Genome Variation. by Li, Xiu-Qing

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Experiments in democracy : human embryo research and the politics of bioethics by Hurlbut, J. Benjamin

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Telomeres : function, shortening and lengthening

Table of Contents: “…Eller -- Telomere lengthening from oocyte to embryonic stem cell / Eva Pericuesta [and others] -- Transcriptional activity at the telomeres of chironomus (diptera) : its possible role in the lengthening of the telomeres / J.L. …”
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Translational Approaches in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. by Mao, Jeremy J.

Table of Contents: “…2.4 Gastrointestinal System2.5 Cardiovascular System; 2.6 Pulmonary System; 2.7 Neurologic System; 2.8 Conclusion; References; PART II Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine; Chapter 3 Embryonic Stem Cells and DifferentiationPathways; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Propagating ESCs in an Undifferentiated State and Additional Amplification by Isolating Pur.…”
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Stem cells research compendium. Volume 1

Table of Contents: “…The Cardiogenic Potential of Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Cognitive Research to Envision the Therapeutic Use of the CellsAbstract; Introduction: The Need for Stem Cell Therapies in Cardiology; Cardiac Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells; Transcriptional Regulation of ESC Cardiac Specification; Differences in Early Cardiac Development of Mouse and Primate Embryo; Prospective Research; References; Hemopoietic Stem Cells and Autoimmunity: Impaired Mechanisms of Thymic Selection or Genetic Predisposition?…”
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Ethical and legal debates in Irish healthcare : confronting complexities

Table of Contents: “…Examining Ireland's failure to regulate embryonic stem cell research: Ciara Staunton.…”
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Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology by Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Types of skeletal tissues -- Bone -- Cartilage -- Invertebrate cartilages -- Intermediate tissues -- An evolutionary perspective -- Horns and ossicones -- Antlers -- Tendons and sesamoids -- Embryonic stem cells -- Stem cells in adults -- Osteo- and chondroprogenitor cells -- Dedifferentiation provides progenitor cells for jaws and long bones -- Dedifferentiation and urodele amphibian limb regeneration -- Cells to make and cells to break -- Skeletal origins : somitic mesoderm -- Skeletal origins : neural crest -- Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions -- The membranous skeleton : condensations -- From condensation to differentiation -- Skulls, eyes and ears : condensations and tissue interactions -- Chondrocyte diversity -- Cartilage diversity -- Osteoblast and osteocyte diversity -- Bone diversity -- Maintaining differentiated chondrocytes -- Maintenance awry : achondroplasia -- Restarting mammalian articular chondrocytes -- Repair of fractures and regeneration of growth plates -- Initiating skeletal growth -- Form, polarity and long-bone growth -- Long bone growth : a case of crying Wolff? …”
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Principles of tissue engineering

Table of Contents: “…Micro-scale patterning of cells and their environment -- Cell interactions with polymers -- Matrix effects -- Polymer scaffold fabrication -- Biodegradable polymers -- Micro- and nanofabricated scaffolds -- Three-dimensional scaffolds -- Tissue engineering and transplantation in the fetus -- Immunomodulation -- Immunoisolation -- Engineering challenges in immunobarrier device development -- Embryonic stem cells -- Adult epithelial tissue stem cells -- Embryonic stem cells as a cell source for tissue engineering -- Postnatal stem cells -- Gene therapy. …”
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Cancer stem cells

Table of Contents: “…Oxytocin and vasopressin systems: oxytocin, vasopressin, and their interplay with gonadal steroids: essentials of cancer stem cells and conceptual modeling -- Theoretical and experimental foundations of the "cancer stem cell" model -- The hallmarks of prostate cancer stem cells -- Self-renewal, induced proliferation, and autonomous cell growth represent distinct modes of cell multiplication: relevance to the cancer stem cell theory -- Human embryonic stem cells and cancer: modeling disease in a dish -- Cancer stem cell as a result of a reprogramming-like mechanism: implications in tumor development and treatment -- A cancer stem cell model: an insight into the conversion of induced pluripotent stem cells to cancer stem-like cells -- Altruistic stem cells and cancer stem cells -- The emerging concept of EMT-induced cancer stem cells -- Models to study chronic myeloid leukemia cancer stem cells -- Cancer stem cells in melanoma: biomarkers and mathematical models -- Stem cells in liquid tumors -- Acute myeloid leukemia stem cells: updates and controversies -- Leukemia-initiating cells in acute lymphoblastic leukemia -- Stem cells in solid tumors -- Lung cancer stem cells and resistance to radiotherapy -- Prostate cancer cell heterogeneity and prostate cancer stem cells -- Glioblastoma stem cells drive tumor recurrence and patient relapse: what's the evidence? …”
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Cancer metastasis and cancer stem cell/niche

Table of Contents: “…ENHANCED STEMNESS AND ALTERED GLYCAN EXPRESSION BY TUMOR HYPOXIAAcquisition of Resistance to Hypoxia by Cancer Cells in Advanced Stage of Cancers; Normal Stem Cells and Their Hypoxic Niches; STEM CELLS AND GLYCAN ALTERATION IN EPITHELIO-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; Glycan Alteration in Epithelio-mesenchymal Transition of Cancer Cells; Normal Stem Cells and Plasticity to Undergo EMT/MET; GLYCANS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND CANCER STEM CELLS; Appearance of Classical Human Embryonic Stem Cell Marker Glycans, SSEA-3/-4, in Cancer Stem Cells.…”
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MicroRNA in regenerative medicine

Table of Contents: “…7.1 INTRODUCTION7.2 STEM CELLS AND PLURIPOTENCY; 7.3 MIRNAS IN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; 7.4 THE ROLE OF MIRNAS IN CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; 7.5 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER QUESTIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; Seminal Articles; Reviews; Chapter 8 -- MicroRNAs in Normal and Malignant Myelopoiesis; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 MIRNAS IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS AND LINEAGE-COMMITTED PROGENITOR CELLS; 8.3 CRITICAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS CONTROL MIRNAS IN MYELOPOIESIS; 8.4 MIRNA FUNCTIONS IN MATURE MYELOID CELLS; 8.5 MIRNAS IN MALIGNANT MYELOPOIESIS…”
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Emerging technologies : from hindsight to foresight

Table of Contents: “…Stakeholder Participation and Regulatory Development / Stuart Smyth -- In the Stem Cell Fields When Human Dignity Is Not Enough : Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning in Canada / Tania Bubela and Timothy Caulfield -- Banking on trust : Issues of Informed Consent in Pharmacogenetic Research / Rose Geransar -- Pharmacogenomic Promises : Reflections on Semantics, Genohype, and Global Justice / Bryn Williams-Jones and Vural Ozdemir -- Envisioning Race and Medicine : BiDil and the Insufficient Match between Social Groups and Genotypes / Benjamin R. …”
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Paranoid science : the Christian Right's war on reality by Alumkal, Antony William, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Stem cell research : Basic issues -- From abortion to embryonic stem cells -- Arguments against embryonic stem cell research and cloning -- The dangers of eugenics and transhumanism -- Euthanasia's slippery slope -- Why the slippery slope is slippery logic -- Is Oregon the new Netherlands? …”
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Newshour medical ethics and issues anthology

Table of Contents: “…Constitution and Assisted Suicide (6:05) -- Embryonic Stem Cell Debate (3:26) -- Ethical Issues of Stem Cell Production (4:18)…”
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