Stem Cell Research Resources

The following resources provide additional information about stem cell research.

Websites

American Association of Medical Colleges

American Catholic, Bioethics and the Catholic Church

Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

International Society for Stem Cell Research

Missouri Coalition for Life Saving Cures

National Institutes of Health, Stem Cell Basics

University of Wisconsin

Reports:

Chapman, A., et al. 1999. Stem Cell Research and Applications: Monitoring the Frontiers of Biomedical Research. Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute for Civil Society. November 1999. [PDF]

Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell Research, Board on Life Sciences National Research Council, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health Institute of Medicine. 2002. Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine.

Meyer, E.A., K. Hanna, K. Geebie (eds.). Institute of Medicine. 2005. Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program. The National Academies Press.

National Bioethics Advisory Commission. 1999. Ethical Issues of Stem Cell Research. September 1999.

National Institutes of Health. 2001. Stem Cells: Scientific Progress and Future Research Directions. Department of Health and Human Services. June 2001.

National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2005. Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. The National Academies Press.

Parsons, A.B. 2004. The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise. The Joseph Henry Press, Washington DC.

Scientific Articles:

Ethics Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 2002. Donating spare embryos for embryonic stem-cell research. Fertility and Sterility 78(5): 957-960.

Fukuchi, Y., et al. 2004. Human placenta-derived cells have mesenchymal stem/progenitor cell potential. Stem Cells 22: 649-658.

Hoffman, D.I., et al. 2003. Cryopreserved embryos in the United States and their availability for research. Fertility and Sterility 79: 1063-9.

Martin, M.J., et al. 2005. Human embryonic stem cells express an immunogenic nonhuman sialic acid. Nature Medicine 11: 228-232.

Thomson, J.A., et. al. 1998. "Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts." Science 282: 1061-1062.

Wang, H., et al. 2004. Mesenchymal stem cells in the Wharton's Jelly of the human umbilical cord. Stem Cells 22: 1330-1337.

Wang, J. et al. 2002. Stem cells from placenta differentiate into neural cells in vitro. Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Conference on Nonhematopoietic & Mesenchymal Stem Cells. October 9-11, 2002. Published in Cytotherapy 5(2), April 2003.

Wilmut, I., et al., 1997. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells. Nature 386: 810-813.

Yoon, Y., et al. 2005. Clonally expanded novel multipotent stem cells from human bone marrow regenerate myocardium after myocardial infarction. Journal of Clinical Investigation 115: 326-338.

Magazine Articles:

National Geographic. 2005. Stem Cells: How far will we go? July 2005.

Scientific American/Financial Times. 2005. Mother of all Cells. July 2005. A6-A35.