Science and ethics.

A group of stem cells.

This week we have been working in Science and Ethics, specifically about "Stem Cells Ethics and Controversy".

There are fears that science is moving too fast without giving proper consideration to potential impacts and to ethical concerns.

In the case of stem cell's there are two key areas of debate:

1) The etchical/moral debate; refering to religious beliefs, wich say that 'messing up' with the human genome is simply not right.

2) Claims are reguarly reported by scientists with their findings published in reputable science journals. They repakages the findings for public consumption and dutifully supplies the splash headline: ' Brain stem cells to cure diabetes' . But the problem is that once you get to the small print you discover that all is not as it seems.

Also as the field of stem cell research is developing new questions and problems arise, with each new discovery another set of problems seems to arise. Like the case of adult stem cells, and another cases we don't know.