Embryonic stem cell

Beginning in the mid twentieth century, embryonic stem cell research has gradually evolved into a paramount and controversial issue in American society. The practice includes the inherent destruction of human embryos for the harvest of stem cells that are used in medical science to treat patients and regenerate body tissues. This murder of innocent human life acts as the underlying spark for the controversial debate. Politicians and leaders have continuously argued over the issue for decades,…

September 2015 Rawal_Rushil_Lab2 Envisage if your underdeveloped child was killed and kept frozen for a group of scientists to perform stem cell research. There are many cases in which embryos are being used for stem cell research. Nowadays, innocent embryos are being frozen and eventually killed on the purpose that their 150 cells will be used to create any type of cell for the future insertion pertaining to living human bodies. Killing embryos is simply dejected and vicious. In fact, United…

Stem cells are the cells that exist in a fetus during the early stages of development inside the mother. These cells have no function and have the potential to become any type of cell in the organism. When these cells are harvested, they are not harvested from an actual human with a fetus, the egg is fertilized in a lab (in-vitro fertilization) and is grown into a blastocyst. This process takes about 5 days and once the stem cells are harvested from the blastocyst it is discarded. A…

and to be able to accept them as reality. However, when there are new scientific discoveries there are often debates on its reliability and whether or not it’s ethical to use such means, but usually is accepted within a decade or two. The use of stem cells, however, has been a topic of debate since the 1970s and shows no sign of ending just yet. Even so, research in this field has continued and has shown that…

process of obtaining embryonic stem cells is one that is quite problematic. It is not as easy as mining in a mine or collecting water from a lake. It takes a delicate process to extract these important cells. Embryonic stem cells come from human embryos. These embryos have an abundance of stem cells that can be used to help cure diseases and illnesses. One drawback though from taking these cells though is the life of potential human. When scientists take embryonic stem cells from embryos, a baby…

trial run by Dr. Don Kohn and his team at UCLA, working with a UK-based company called Orchard Therapeutics. The treatment she underwent was called OTL-101, which involves taking the patient’s own blood stem cells, genetically re-engineer them, and returned them to her body. These re-engineered stem cells created a new blood and immune system. Now this might sound like science fiction, but this is a true story. Evangelina is now 6 years old and she is living…

ramification of stem cell research. Stem cell research provides an understanding of human development and presents prospects of developing new treatments for various diseases such as diabetes spinal cord injuries, heart ailments and Parkinson’s disease. Despite these prospects, stem cell research poses ethical issues. These ethical issues centre on the derivation of stem cells from embryos. Other methods of deriving stem cells pose lesser ethical issues compared to deriving stem cells from…

Stem cells have been around as early as 1868, but stem cell are often related to “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and the book was published in 1818, 50-years before stem cells were thought of. In Frankenstein, Victor, a scientist, got body parts that he severed from grave digging in order to create the creature. When Victor was done shaping the creature he was “playing god” because he brought something to life without reproduction. Stem cells are also referred to “playing god”, or “cheating at…

Stem cells have become a popular topic in today’s society. These regenerative cells have been found to mimic the types of cells that grow around them. Stem cells have shown promise as a possible cure to some cancers and autoimmune diseases. The use of Stem Cells in the medical field have made advances in the medical world that could exponentially lead to curing cancers and autoimmune diseases, as well as repairing and replacing damaged organs. The research of stem cells has furthered the human…

lightly. Stem cell research is beneficial because it helps to further the research towards the cure of diabetes, cancer, other various diseases and illnesses, and the advancement in the growth of such stem cells also helps further the research in organ growth. However, some ways the scientists conduct and carry out stem cell research is neither morally correct nor practical. Stem cell research helps further the advancement in the curing of diseases such as diabetes…