Congratulations to the Winner of today's ticket to the Catholic Charities' I-Cubs Game: Joan Thorpe
Featured National Guest: Jennifer Miller, Executive Director of Bioethics International
Bill and Rich spoke with Jen Miller, the Executive Director for Bioethics International. Bioethics International is focused on empowering professionals and organizations in healthcare, life science and biotechnology to make responsible decisions.
Jennifer spoke today about one of the many hot-button issues in our society. She often speaks to healthcare professionals about the stem cell research. She educates them as to what a stem cell is, what the difference is between an adult and an embryonic stem cell. Above and beyond that, she also dives into what the moral implications are involving stem cell research.
Up until now, embryonic stem cell research has been lauded because embryonic stem cells are basically a blank slate. With advancement in science, a scientist can take an adult stem cell and engineer it into being the same type of blank slate. This form of adult stem cell research has been more effective than that of embryonic stem cell research. Even Dr. Oz, from Oprah, heralded the end of embryonic stem cell research due to its lack of success and the ability for scientists to create the same stem cell from a persons own adult stem cells.
Jennifer's uplifting take on Stem Cell research is that scientists and funding will go where they see results. Adult Stem Cell research has been proven to give the results society is looking for.
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