Posted on 09/05/2006 6:20:17 PM PDT by ConservativeTeacherInTraining
Hi all. I am working on a persuasive research paper for my debate class. My topic is stem cell research and the delimmas facing society, government, and the scientific community. I am having trouble finding documented, peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss the studies conducted showing how adult and umbilical stem cells have been more effective and shown more positive results than embryonic stem cells. I have to make sure I avoid as much as possible anything biased one way or the other and it can't be anything from Newsweek or anything like that. It also has to be something that can be found in hard copy. I can have the electronic versions (i.e. JAMA online), however, there also has to be a hard copy version.
Can anyone help me out? If you know someone who would have this information, please direct them to this thread.
Thanks.
Have you tried the Bible? That's available in hard copy.
IBTZ
Also,if you have a medical school near you,it *might* be possible to gain access to the periodicals section without,as I'm sure you can imagine,borrowing privileges.
LOL. I thought about that, but since it's a debate class, that might not go over too well. :-)
Try PubMed. Regarding embryonic versus adult stem cells, the cell therapy data for the heart is a good place to start. There are data demonstrating that embryonic stem cells can form teratoma's in the heart (tumors with cells/tissue differentiated into multiple different lineages; e.g. teeth, muscle, hair), and that adult and cord blood-derived 'stem' cells do not do this. There is an upside and a downside to omnipotency in stem cells. Adult and cord blood-derived cells might have less retained ability to differentiate into multiple cell types, but they are also arguably less risky for this reason.
Hope this helps.
Welcome to FR newbie, have fun and glad to see you come aboard.
Agreed, Pubmed is your best bet, which is the NCBI link given above. Even when you can't access the full article, you may get good pointers from the abstract.
Thanks for your post. I did pull up PubMed and I'm looking through the articles now.
And many large universities have good collections of peer-reviewed medical journals. You're not likely to be able to take them out, but you should be able to copy articles on site.
Boy, there is a lot of information. It would be nice if I could translate the titles and articles into layman's terms. :-)
Thanks. I may look to you to translate some of this jargon. I took a class in medical terminology, but this stuff is beyond me.
Some of it may be quite technical. I'm pretty tied up for the next two weeks, but could answer a few questions for you. There are some breaks in the work, also, so go ahead and ask when you have the information.
Check out www.thecbc.org. I am on the Board of this organization, and the site has a lot of info on bioethics and stemm cell research.
ibtz?
thanks
I'm sorry if the info is too much for you. Perhaps we could do your research and writing the paper for you as well?
Medline. You should be able to access it for free through your school library system.
Exactly who the heck do you think you are? I'm in my 5th year of college, half-way to my master's, I'm a history major, not a pre-med major. I asked someone to translate medical terminology and over the last 10 years, I have written over a dozen term papers. How many have you written? I took AP classes throughout junior and senior high school. I was number 4 in my high school graduating class. I'm in the National Honor Society and Phi Theta Kappa and have made the Dean's/President's list 8 semesters in a row. I am also in the process of being published in a First Amendment Law book before I even have my degree. So pardon me as a history major for not speaking Latin and knowing all of medical terminology. What are your qualifications to make that kind of a smart mouthed comment? I'm glad 99% of the people here have been nice and helpful and considerate my first night as a member, but apparently even on Free Republic, the occasional jerk manages to show his/her face. You are not contributing to the subject of this thread so get lost.
Thanks. :-)
did you find enough info?
I found an over abundance of info. Thanks for all your help.
I want to thank everyone for their help. My research paper is due November 6th and I have all of my information sifted through and all my notes taken so I can get my paper written. I am currently just waiting on my schools' library to subscribe to an essential journal for me and other students. No clue why they haven't subscribed to it yet.
Again, thanks for all of your help.
I want to thank everyone for their help. I completed my paper two nights ago and will turn it in to my professor tomorrow. My husband took the opportunity to design a website for it, so here's the URL: http://www.angelfire.com/blog/stemcells/
I hope you enjoy the reading and find it useful. Anyone who lives in states such as MO where there will be stem cell propositions on the ballots can definitely use this. You can also forward it to your Senators and Congressmen as I have done. I will hand mine to my Congressman on Tuesday night at the party we're all having for him, provided that he wins again.
There was so much information that I had to add an Appendix. I'm working on getting links to the journal articles and also uploading PDF copies of all documents in case the links ever go down.
Again, thanks everyone for your help.
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