Stems of potential

IN MARCH last year US president Barak Obama lifted the Bush government’s ban on embryonic stem cell research.
No such ban has applied to research in Australia.

While the scientific community throughout the world welcomed the decision, it has reignited debate about the ethics of such research.

Few medical issues are as layered with emotion and rhetoric as embryonic stem cell research.

The debate has yet again exposed the chasm that often exists between the world of science and the world of faith.

Crosslight, the magazine of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, spoke to Uniting Church member and senior research fellow at Monash University’s immunology and stem cell laboratories, Dr David Cram about faith, science and hope for ... More