- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
-
Dialogue 1 Hope -
Dialogue 2 Why is this Cell Different from Other Cells? -
Dialogue 3 The President’s Stem Cells -
Dialogue 4 The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -
Dialogue 5 The Moral Status of Embryos -
Dialogue 6 Creating Good from Immoral Acts -
Dialogue 7 Circumventing Embryocide -
Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -
Dialogue 9 Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -
Dialogue 10 Reversing Macular Degeneration -
Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer -
Dialogue 12 Reprogramming Cells -
Dialogue 13 My Personalized Disease Cells -
Dialogue 14 To Clone or not to Clone -
Dialogue 15 Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells is Immoral and Illegal (In Europe) -
Dialogue 16 My Embryo is Auctioned on the Internet -
Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man -
Dialogue 18 Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -
Dialogue 19 Stem Cell Tourism -
Dialogue 20 Social Media Meet Science Hype -
Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -
Dialogue 22 Was My Birth Embryo Me? -
Dialogue 23 Embryos without Ovaries -
Dialogue 24 How My Cells Became Drugs -
Dialogue 25 A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index
My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes
My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes
- Chapter:
- (p.49) Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes
- Source:
- Stem Cell Dialogues
- Author(s):
Sheldon Krimsky
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
In this dialogue, Dr. Rebecca Franklin discusses with Janet Richfield, a stem cell scientist, and Beverly Simpson, who has been living with type 1 diabetes her entire life, the progress in clinical trials involving personalized embryonic stem cells that eventually could lead to a cure for Simpson's diabetes. Richfield, Simpson's endocrinologist, is working on producing islet cells that can be transplanted to diabetics to cure their insulin deficiency. Here they talk about the promise of stem cell research in the treatment of type 1 diabetes; where stem cells come from and how they work; how personalized embryonic stem cells are going to help diabetics like Simpson; the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT); and the risks involved in SCNT.
Keywords: type 1 diabetes, clinical trials, personalized embryonic stem cells, islet cells, insulin deficiency, stem cell research, stem cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
-
Dialogue 1 Hope -
Dialogue 2 Why is this Cell Different from Other Cells? -
Dialogue 3 The President’s Stem Cells -
Dialogue 4 The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -
Dialogue 5 The Moral Status of Embryos -
Dialogue 6 Creating Good from Immoral Acts -
Dialogue 7 Circumventing Embryocide -
Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -
Dialogue 9 Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -
Dialogue 10 Reversing Macular Degeneration -
Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer -
Dialogue 12 Reprogramming Cells -
Dialogue 13 My Personalized Disease Cells -
Dialogue 14 To Clone or not to Clone -
Dialogue 15 Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells is Immoral and Illegal (In Europe) -
Dialogue 16 My Embryo is Auctioned on the Internet -
Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man -
Dialogue 18 Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -
Dialogue 19 Stem Cell Tourism -
Dialogue 20 Social Media Meet Science Hype -
Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -
Dialogue 22 Was My Birth Embryo Me? -
Dialogue 23 Embryos without Ovaries -
Dialogue 24 How My Cells Became Drugs -
Dialogue 25 A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index