Getting Down to Business on Stem Cell Research Ethics
Stem cell policy just caught up with research, and SP contributor and CAP Research Assistant Michael Rugnetta outlines how to move forward with dicussions on how to to conduct ethical research involving human embryonic stem cells at the Huffington Post. From his op-ed:
What the Department of Health and Human Services should do is take the extra step of transparent ethical strategizing. Specifically, the NIH should convene a new working group under its Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, or RAC. The RAC was created in 1974 to foster public acceptance of basic and clinical recombinant DNA research through open deliberation between the scientific community and the lay public. This new working group would do the same thing but with pluripotent stem cell research. It would recommend the overall ethical approach that the stem cell research community should take when moving pluripotent stem cells from the bench to the bedside. This would ensure that all stem cell research would move ahead ethically and with the best chances for success.
Read the full column here.
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