Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

WUSF's Wake Up Call

Our daily newsletter, delivered first thing weekdays, keeps you connected to your community with news, culture, national NPR headlines, and more.

Slate's Human Nature: Stem Cell Debate

By Madeleine Brand

Published March 15, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Slate's Will Saletan about new developments in the debate over stem cell research. One biologist is hoping to diffuse some of the ethical debate by proposing the use of a new technology to create stem cells without creating a fully formed embryo.

Tags

US / World

Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).