Stem Cells: The Brain's Beginnings (60 min.)
Video Clip #1 (7 min.): Learn what steps are involved in developing therapies with embryonic stem cells, and what hurdles must be overcome to do so.
Video Clip #2 (7 min.): Learn how it is possible to use stem cells to test drug therapies, and what are the advantages of somatic cell nuclear transfer.
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CMM250: Interinstitutional Core Course
in Stem Cell Biology, Medicine, and Ethics
News
The 2008 core course runs January 8 - March 13, 2008, every Tuesday and Thursday from 8 to 11am. The Course committee consists of Dr.s Goldstein, Mercola, Izpisua-Belmonte, Ding, and Devereaux. The course is held at The Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, CA. More »
Course Overview
This course provides the latest information in human stem cell biology, medicine, and ethics. The course relies on the multidisciplinary faculty at UCSD and collaborating institutions (The Burnham Institute, The Salk Institute, and The Scripps Research Institute) who are experts in specific systems, approaches to stem cell biology, possible uses in clinical medicine, and ethical, economic, social, and legal issues for stem cell research and clinical application.
The course consists of scientific lectures, discussions of scientific and ethics papers, and ethics discussions. Each unit of the course will present the basic, translational, and clinical elements of stem cells in a human system or research program. Topics will include what is known about possible presence of stem cells; the identification, purification and properties of stem cells; possible and actual uses of stem cells in animal models of relevant diseases; possible and actual uses in clinical application to an organ system or disease state.
Accompanying each unit of the course is a guided discussion of ethical, economic, and social issues related to stem cell research and to the development of new therapies covered in lectures and scientific paper discussions. The ethics component runs contemporaneously with the stem cell core biology lectures and discussions so that ethical issues raised in the stem cell biology course can be treated as "case studies" in the ethics component. Ethics topics will include access to novel therapies, management of donated stem cells (e.g., cord blood), how to know when novel therapies are ready for human trials, ethics of human experimentation, issues of ethnic diversity that affect trials, chimeras in animal models, ethics of risk-benefit analyses affecting decisions whether to initiate human trials, and legal and bio-economic issues. More »
Readings
Readings are assigned weekly and added to the syllabus. For the latest syllabus, please go here.
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