{"id":406,"date":"2009-04-09T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/04\/another_request_this_time_its\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T05:52:53","slug":"another-request-this-time-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/04\/another-request-this-time-its\/","title":{"rendered":"another request – this time it’s stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time, the daughter tells me, she’s doing a project on a ‘current issue’ – & she’s selected stem cells. Current, controversial, contentious – & extremely interesting. But again, I’m not an expert (although my colleague Bjorn Oback, at AgResearch<\/a>, is doing some very interesting work in that area & in fact received a Kudos award for his research in 2007). So this time, I thought I’d just point you at a couple of places to get started, if you’ve chosen this topic too.<\/p>\n

One is a fact sheet that Bjorn put together for us<\/a> when he spoke at a Cafe Scientifique, a couple of years ago now. (It was a great Cafe session. We must get him back for an update…)<\/p>\n

And the other is a post & its related discussion<\/a> that fellow science blogger Ken Perrot has put up over at Open Parachute. I think this one’s particularly valuable for when you’re doing the ‘social & ethical’ aspects of your project, because the discussion that’s going on presents opposing points of view very clearly.<\/p>\n

There’s plenty more out there on the web – just remember to apply your critical thinking skills to what you find, as the quality of what’s available is (as my mother used to say) like the curate’s egg: good in parts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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