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Various opinions on human stem cell research can be found at Lutherans for Life, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Focus on the Family, Discover, National Review, Technology Review, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.The National Institutes of Health Web site offers an area on stem-cell research that includes the controversial research guidelines and a primer on "what stem cells are; what pluripotent stem cells are; how pluripotent stem cells are derived; why pluripotent stem cells are important to science; why they hold such great promise for advances in health care; and what adult stem cells are." The American Association for the Advancement of Science has also addressed the issue of human stem cell research.The Web site for Trinity's Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity includes several areas on stem-cell research and a daily bioethics Weblog. Last year, The New York Times looked at the religious aspects of the debate over human stem cell research. Christopher Reeve discussed the possible benefits of stem cells for spinal cord injuries on Good Morning America. The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation is also online.See our past coverage of this issue:New Stem-Cell Research Guidelines Criticized | NIH guidelines skirt ethical issues about embryo destruction, charge bioethicists (Feb. 7, 2000) Human Embryo Research Resisted (August 9, 1999) Embryo Research Contested (May 24, 1999) Editorial: The Biotech Temptation | Research on human embryos holds great promise, but at what price? (July 12, 1999)

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June 12 2000, Vol. 44, No. 7