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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Stem cell research debates have echoed from class to class, and to hear that someone actually has a solution to this paradox, which can really compromise two very stubborn points of views, I could not but write my report about what I thought of a very “enlightening” article: 1. Objective analysis. Maureen L Condic’s “Getting stem cells rights” serves to emphasize the ethical part of stem cells research as it tries to ground the whole debate and market a new prospect of an embryonic stem cell called the induced pluripotent stem cells. The author clearly supports the latter and wishes to completely focus all research on it and forget about the “unethical” embryonic stem cell research. She took to pen to 1) present this new prospect 2) rebuttal the response of present embryonic stem cell researchers, and 3) completely support the new IPSC research as a call for action to end embryonic stem cell research. 1) Author presents and informs about IPSC in : -”A true, no-cost resolution of a conflict, where the interests of all parties are served without compromise.” - Ongoing research that has shown “ordinary human skins” can be changed into stem cells by a process called direct reprogramming equal to embryonic stem cells. -Production of IPSC is very simple. -No destruction of embryos taking place -Ethically and scientifically “uncompromised” -Research though still in its infancy -Simpler and cheaper to produce than embryonic stem cells. -eligible for federal funding 2) Author rebuttals what she corralled from different sources from which scientists... ... middle of paper ... ...ured. – Claimed the same university of Utah in their website. So if that is the case then why support one research over the other. Moreover, iPS cells can also develop into a human embryo. This is also considered to be unethical by many supervisors. Report on Article by Maureen L. Condic – First Things - February 08 “Getting Stem Cells Right” References: University of Utah http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/scissues/ Reports of Danwei Huangfu, René Maehr, Wenjun Guo, Astrid Eijkelenboom, Melinda Snitow, Alice E Chen & Douglas A Melto. http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n7/full/nbt1418.html Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell US national Library of Medicine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010384/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19672241