National Bioethics Advisory Commission2019-09-252019-09-252014-11-272003http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/214728"In November 1998, President Clinton charged the National Bioethics Advisory Commission with the task of conducting a thorough review of the issues associated with human stem cell research, balancing all ethical and medical considerations. The President's request was made in response to three separate reports that brought to the fore the exciting scientific and clinical prospects of stem cell research while also raising a series of ethical controversies regarding federal sponsorship of scientific inquiry in this area. Scientific reports of the successful isolation and culture of these specialized cells have offered hope of new cures for debilitating and even fatal illness and at the same time have renewed an important national debate about the ethics of research involving human embryos and cadaveric fetal material."spaCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)ethicsresearchstem cellshumananimalsBioethicsMedical ethicsEnvironmental ethicsAnimal ethicsArticle