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- Title: Public Stem Cell Banks: Considerations of Justice in Stem Cell Research and Therapy.
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 240 KB
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The forthcoming transition in the focus of stem cell research from basic science in the development of therapies raises important questions of justice. This transition is marked by increasing interest in establishing banks of stem cell lines, both to facilitate research and in anticipation of the eventual use of stem cell-derived transplants to treat such diseases as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's, and diabetes. (1) The creation of stem cell banks raises questions about who stands to benefit from these banks and their research and therapeutic applications. First, there is a question about who, financially, will have access to stem cell-based therapies. (2) Also, given that some nations have legislated against allowing the use of embryonic stem cells, there may be a question of who legally will have access to therapies derived from banked stem cell lines, particularly those of embryonic derivation. A final issue, and the one we will discuss in this paper, is who biologically will have access to cell-based therapies. As we will show, the biological properties of stem cells themselves may make them less accessible to some potential recipients than to others, a situation we term the problem of biological access. Unless the problem of biological access is carefully addressed, an American stem cell bank may end up benefiting primarily white Americans, to the relative exclusion of the rest of the population. We must therefore ask which of all possible ways to structure an American stem cell bank is the most just.
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