Human stem cell research requires the destruction of human embryos and/or therapeutic coning, which brings up ethical and religious issues. "Many religions, including Buddhism and Christianity do not believe in this harm , or that it destroys the afterlife."- Whoever said this is stupid, Christians do believe this is wrong because its close to abortion. Its just the same as destroying a human person. there is good and bad to this research.
Recent advances in stem cell harvesting have made the religious argument like the one above no longer relevant as abortion issues no longer apply.
March 2009
Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells that could lead to possible cures for devastating diseases including spinal cord injury, macular degeneration, Diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The study, published by Nature, accelerates stem cell technology and provides a road map for new clinical approaches to regenerative medicine. "This new method of generating stem cells does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells."
The research was funded by the Canadian Stem Cell Network and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (United States).
There are no disadvantages, only advantages. Some might insist a disadvantage MIGHT be that embryonic stem cells must be harvested from embryos. While this is true, these are usually leftover embryos from fertilization treatments or unwanted, aborted embryos. No one harvests stem cells from wanted embryos, and the potential boon to our species is enormous.
Stem cell therapy used on Heart disease patients can make their coronary arteries become narrower, according to new research. A study was abandoned when scientists discovered that although participants' heart function improved, there was an unexpectedly high rate of coronary artery narrowing. The researchers, from Seoul University, South Korea, were carrying out a study on 27 patients who had been diagnosed with myocardial infarction.
One major disadvantage is that culturing adult stem cells in-vitro is very difficult and has not been possible for some types. Also they have a very short life, when cultured in-vitro as compared to embryonic cells.
Stem cell research exploits fetuses and a mother's eggs
it maybe considered unethical; those who have religions stating that only their God has the right to make life may believe that cloning and stem cells are wrong.
Some common arguments for banning stem cell research are that it requires the destruction of a human embryo, it may be misused, and lastly people will start to play "god".
This type of research requires that cells are taken from an embryo. Some people are opposed to stem cell research because they think it is unethical.
There is no solution to stem cell research. It is hotly and highly debated. There are a number of ethical and moral concerns. This will not be resolved any time soon.
Stem cell research came along which was impossible to occur without cell discovery.
it is called stem cell research
stem cells are known as the "repair system for the body". That means they divide constantly taking place of other cells. Like if they was a bad cell then the stem cell would just take its place. Stem cells are amazing for solving diseases. That's why stem cell research is so important- scientists have already discovered that stem cells can cure more than 70 of the most major diseases. Its really incredible
How much does stem cell research cost? $4 trillion per year.
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Alice Park has written: 'The stem cell hope' -- subject(s): Transplantation, Stem Cell Transplantation, Stem cells, Popular Works, Stem Cell Research, Research, Popular works
The Republican Party has a new platform that calls for expanded support for stem cell research. However, many of the old school Republicans are still vehemently opposed to stem cell research.
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China is, they recently opened the worlds largest stem cell research centre there, in the province jiangsu
Human embryonic and adult stem cells each have advantages and disadvantages regarding potential use for cell-based regenerative therapies. ... Adult stem cells are thought to be limited to differentiating into different cell types of their tissue of origin. Embryonic stem cells can be grown relatively easily in culture.
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Stem Cells research can be found on online research medical journals or a stem cells research teams' webpage. The MedicalNewsToday website the latest news on stem cell research.
Constitutionalists just stemmed cell research? Nonsense.
I have yet to meet any religious leader that is against stem cell research. The issue is not about stem cell research. What some religious leaders are against is the use of aborted children's stem cells for research. They have no issue with using adult stem cells or stems cells cultured.