NEWS RELEASES
9/20/04 News Release
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MEDIA ADVISORY:
STANFORD MEDICINE MAGAZINE FOCUSES ON STEM CELLS
Fall issue offers a crash course on the science, ethics and politics
of stem cell research
STANFORD, Calif. – The tiny stem cell has taken over nearly the entire fall issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, Stanford University School of Medicine’s research and alumni periodical. The fall issue, published this month, gives readers insight into the controversy surrounding stem cell research.
The magazine answers basic questions such as: What exactly is a stem cell? And what’s all the fuss about? The publication goes on to provide the stories behind some of the most exciting work in stem cell research today. Among the offerings:
· An exclusive Q&A with Ron Reagan on his stem cell research advocacy efforts.
· A one-page “primer” (everything you wanted to know about stem cell research, but were afraid to ask).
· Stories spelling out the science, ethics and politics of the stem cell debate.
· An update on Stanford’s Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine.
· A profile of Bob Klein, the man behind California’s Proposition 71 – an initiative that would provide $3 billion for stem cell research.
· A Q&A with actor Michael J. Fox on life with Parkinson’s disease and the role of stem cell research in finding a cure.
· An article by Stanford ethicist Ernlé Young examining a key controversy in stem cell research: is a fertilized egg equivalent to a person?
· A feature on the effort, spearheaded at Stanford, to isolate and characterize cancer stem cells.
For a copy of Stanford Medicine, call (650) 723-6911 or read it online
at http://mednews.stanford.edu/.
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