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Kirch, Darrell G. “Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” Association of American Medical Colleges, 2017. <www.aamc.org/advocacy/research/74440/embryonicstemcellresearch.html>.
Words: Obama, acts, laws, funds
Summary: In 2010, Obama gives an excretive order to expand experimentation and lifts restrictions on the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in 2001. The research can only use cells created in-vitro for reproduction that are no longer in need or cells that were donated.
Opinion: The website is very informative and has build-in links in text to other articles that gives more in-depth information. It is not very organized as it is in an essay format that is harder to read and follow.
Reliability: Information is presented by the Association of American Medical Colleges on a .org website. All data is supported by accurate facts with numbers.

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“Eurostemcell.” Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An Ethical Dilemma. <www.eurostemcell.org/embryonic-stem-cell-research-ethical-dilemma>.
Words: ethics, morals, two-sided argument
Summary: There are two sides to advancing stem cell research. One believes that if a blastocyst is destroyed before implantation, it will cause no harm to the uterus and embryo will have no beielfes or feelings. The other side believes that taking an early embryo out prevents it from growing into a human being and is considered a killing sin.
Opinion: the information is divided into different tabs, so it makes it very easy to navigate and find specific information. It considers all points of the issue, including the ethical dilemma, moral status, and religion
Reliability: The author's work was reviewed by a second author. The information is proposed in a .org website and its sources are cited. It has information on an on-going project on stem cells done by the team that owns that website. The project earned funding from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under a grant agreement.

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“19 Advantages and Disadvantages of Stem Cell Research.” Vittana.org, 18 May 2017. <vittana.org/19-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-stem-cell-research>.
Words: rejection, cost, treatments
Summary: Stem cell research gives insight on how human life works, can create tissues from its regenerative properties, and can reduce pregnancy loss. Its disadvantages include being costly, limited (adult), having side effects, and ethical issues.
Opinion: It is visually appealing and contains many videos connecting to the content. It is organized into two categories of advantages and disadvantages. The writing is supported by facts and statistics.
Reliability: Website ends with .org, has data supported by statistics, and has recent data.

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Hanna, Kathi E. “Cloning/Embryonic Stem Cells.” National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Apr. 2006. <www.genome.gov/10004765/cloningembryonic-stem-cells/>.
Words: cloning, isolation, reproduction
Summary: Stem cells can be cloned for reproductive reasons or isolation reasons to research more. In reproductive cloning, nuclear somatic cell is transferred into the donor. In isolation cloning, stem cells are grown in a nutrient-rich environment to create new and healthy tissues for the damaged ones.
Opinion:The website is extremely plain and lacks visuals, such as diagrams, pictures, or graphs. It is nicely organized into categories of policies and regulation, ethical issues, and scientific uncertainties for both reproductive and isolation cloning.
Reliability: The website ends with .gov and has a reliable author with Ph.D. Though, the data is a little old from 2006 and facts are not backed up by other outside reliable resources.

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Moye, Lemuel. "Stem-Cell Trial Failed to Treat Heart Failure." Consumer HealthDay. N.p., 26

Mar. 2012. Web.
<https://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-information-20/misc-stroke-related-heart-news-360/stem-cell-trial-failed-to-treat-heart-failure-663058.html>.
Words: heart failure, improvement, therapy
Summary: An experiment done using stem cells to treat chronic heart failure came up short in terms of effectiveness. It suggested that stem cells don’t improve most measures of heart function and had no particular effect on repairing the damages in the heart. Though, they saw very small improvement of 3.1% in the patients.
Opinion: The website is full of text and very plain. It didn't have any background information on the actual experiment and simply had the explanation of the results.
Reliability: It has allot of dialogues of the researchers' sayings on the outcome of the experiment, which makes the text more interesting to read. The author has a M.D., Ph.D. and is a professor at University of Texas. The experiment is fairly recent, but its data is proposed on a .com website.

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Gregory Curfman. "Repairing the Heart with Stem Cells - Harvard Health." Harvard Health.

N.p., 1 Mar. 2013. Web.
<https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/repairing-the-heart-with-stem-cells>.
Summary: Stem cells were used to regenerate damaged heart tissue. After the procedure, the amount of scar tissue in patients decreased by about 50%.
Opinion: It is very informative and has pictures to go long with the explanation of the procedure. It mentions the after-math of the treatment as well by updating about the patients' health. The tone is very friendly (asks questions), yet informative, which makes it easier of the audience to understand and stay interested.
Reliability: It is published on Harvard Medical School. The experiment is somewhat recent and most of the writing is from a primary source from professors working at the Harvard School.

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Thrasher, Adrian. "Gene Therapy Cures “Bubble Boy”." New Scientist. Ed. Sophie Petit Zeman.

N.p., 3 Apr. 2002. Web. <https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2124-gene-therapy-cures-bubble-boy/>.
Words: SCID, X-linked, immune cells
Summary: Welsh baby had X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. It caused a faulty gene to stop producing T-cells that are essential for a strong immune system.
Opinion: The article was to the point and included all the maildetails from the gene therapy. It could've been more detailed and backed up by scientific facts
Reliability: It is on a .com website, does not have a credible author, has many off topic ads, and is very short. Though, it is a good enough source to talk about an experiment that took place in the 1970s.

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Stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are capable of developing into different and specialized cell types in the body, which helps regenerate or repair a damaged tissue.

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How can advanced technology like stem cell research be beneficial for humans?

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Lachmann, Peter. "Stem Cell Research—why Is It Regarded as a Threat?" (n.d.): n. pag. EMBO

Reports. Oxford University Press, 15 Mar. 2001. Web. <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1083849/>.
Words: rejection, infection, expensive procedure, not ethical
Summary: there is higher chance of rejection as the cells derive from a different embryo with different blood type/dna. It is not accessible to all as it is very expensive. It raises ethical issues and gets compared to abortion.
Opinion: It is very detailed on the potential threats posed by the research. It contains unnecessary details about history of people opposing abortion. It is easy to follow as content is broken into categories.
Reliability: facts are backed up by in site citations, credible author, .gov website, old source

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Bethesda, MD. "Stem Cell Basics." : Introduction [Stem Cell Information]. Web. 06 Oct. 2015.<https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/6.htm>.

Words: Embryonic, Adult, unique properties, uses

Summary: Cells are regenerative, have two types: embryonic(versatile) & adult(limited), used for diabetes, cancer, blindness, deafness, bone marrow transplant.

Opinion: Has accurate facts, is easily accessed, is unbiased, visually appealing

Reliability: It has a credible author (MD), recent info.(2015), has statements backed up by facts/citations, and is on .gov website.

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Gearhart, John. "A Decade of Stem-cell Research." Interview by Howard Wolinsky.

National Center for Biotechnology Information. N.p., 12 Dec. 2008. Web. <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613216/>.

Words: federal funding, ethical obligations, iPS cells

Summary: iPS cells or adult cells are easy to work with due to their limitations, federal funding is very low, and ethical issues include killing babies/playing with god

Opinion: hard to find info, not visually appealing

Reliability: primary source, .gov, more opinion than fact based, fairly recent, and credible authors.