Below are various resources on stem cell research which will help you to explore this topic further.

1. Audio
2. Video
3. Weblinks
4. International documents
5. PDF Downloads
6. Print journal articles

Audio

Embryonic Stem Cells Made Without Embryos – with John Ydstie and Joe Palca

Radio interview on ‘making embryonic stem cells without human embryos?’ An attempt to eliminate the human embryo controversy.

Video

The Stem Cell Story

Cloning Humans –  Clayton TV programme

This online programme looks at the controversy surrounding stem cell research and includes interviews with key scientists, ethicists and politicians from the UK and US.

Weblinks

DoNoHarm – Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics

Benefits of Stem Cells to Human Patients

 The USA’s National Institutes of Health Resource for Stem Cell Research

A website providing comprehensive information on the basics of stem cells. It also provides a lot of research resources covering scientific, social and ethical aspects of stem cell research.

 Explore Stem Cells

A UK website about stem cells, highlighting some developments in stem cell research in the UK.

Medical News Today

News stories on stem cell research

 Review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act: A public consultation

UK Stem Cell Bank

The UK Stem Cell Bank was established to provide a repository of human embryonic, foetal and adult stem cell lines as part of the UK governance for the use of human embryos for research.

CNN Politics: Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells

An article (with various links to the related issue) from CNN featuring Barack Obama’s view on stem cell research, providing an overall outlook of stem cell research in the USA in the coming few years.

EuroStemCell

FAQ re: stem cells and the law – A fact sheet summarising laws governing stem cell research in USA, EU and UK.

UK Department of Health: Stem cell research

Constantly updated news and guidance on recent UK policies on stem cell research and related ethical issues.

The Hinxton Group: An International Consortium on Stem Cells, Ethics & Law

Updated information on world policies on stem cell research.

International documents

UN General Assembly Declaration on Cloning (2005)

The United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning calls on Member States to adopt all measures necessary to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.

A press release announcing the General Assembly’s adoption of the declaration can be found here.

European Directive on the legal protection for Biotechnological inventions (Directive 98/44/EC) (1998)

Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions is a European Union directive in the field of patent law, made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome.

Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997)

The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, otherwise known as the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, or the Oviedo Convention, after Oviedo, Spain, the place where it was first signed, is a 1997 treaty drafted by the Council of Europe regarding various aspects of bioethics.

PDF Downloads

Christian Medical Fellowship – ‘Files’ series:

• Therapeutic cloning and stem cells

Christian Concern

• Briefing booklet -  “Protecting the Embryo: Why It’s Essential”

Printed journal articles

Pardo, R., & Calvo, F. (2008) Attitudes toward embryo research, worldviews, and the moral status of the embryo frame. Science Communication 30 (1): 8–47.