1.  What have British researchers done with adult stem cells derived from bone marrow?

2.  a) Who is Magdi Yacoub?
b) What is Mr Yacoub's ten year goal?

3.  What will be the benefit of a heart valve grown from a person's own stem cells vs. the replacement valves currently being used?

4.  Why is the use of embryonic stem cells an ethical issue, while the use of adult stem cells is not controversial?

5.  Where do adult stem cells come from?

6.  What benefits do adult stem cells offer in the treatment of diseases that embryonic stem cells do not?

7.  a) What bill is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introducing next week?
b) Why do you think President Bush has said that he will veto the bill?

8.  Why do you think advocates (supporters) of embryonic stem cells dismiss, downplay or ignore the importance of adult stem cells?

9.  What progress has been made in fighting liver cancer using adult stem cells?

10. Critics of embryonic stem-cell research say those cells have never cured anyone, and that destroying an embryo (destroying a human life) in an attempt to save another life (by attempting to find a cure for a disease) is morally wrong.
Proponents of embryonic stem cells say they haven't cured anybody yet, but have the potential to do so.  They say an embryo is not yet a human life and there is no moral issue involved.  What do you think?
(Read further about the stem cell debate at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity website at cbhd.org/resources/stemcells/index.html)