Who has the authority to decide if stem cells of an embryo are used?

The three types of stem cells in an embryo are totipotent, pluripotent, and multipotent.

Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) are stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst, an early-stage embryo. In other words, they do not become embryos, they are part of an embryo.

Stem cells are removed just after conception when the zygote is forming into an embryo. When stem cells are taken, the embryo cannot develop, and so does die.

Adult stem cells are harvested from newborn's cord blood or human bone marrow while embryo stem cells come from the inner cell mass of a human embryo. No fetus is killed to use the stem cells, but the embryo cannot function and must be destroyed without a inner cell mass.

There are more cells found in an embryo than an adult.

Stem cells can come from human embryos, blood, or bone marrow.

In order to obtain stem cells, an embryo must be in the blastocyst stage.

Stem cells harvested from embryos are taken from babies that have been murdered. Stem cells taken from adults involves no murder.

They come from a 'Blastocyst', this is one of the earliest forms of an embryo where the cells are not yet specialised (stem cells).

stem cells are described as cells part of the embryo where fertilized human egg cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes

The controversy over stem cells results from the fact that the human embryo is a convenient source (although not the only source) of stem cells; therefore, this connects to the very controversial issue of abortion. In order to use an embryo as a source of stem cells, it first has to be aborted.

Sacrifice a embryo at the blastocoel stage. Obtain the stem cells from the blastomere.

Yes. Stem cells can be hervested from: Bone marrow The early embryo Cord blood

And embryonic stem cell is taken from an embryo at a very early stage of its development. The embryo is so small at that point that taking the stem cells destroys the embryo. An adult stem cell is taken from an adult and doing so does not destroy the adult. Adult stem cells are thought to be less flexible than embryonic stem cells and therefore less suitable for certain processes.

The major issue involving the harvesting of embryonic stem cells is that the embryonic stem cells can cause the destruction of an embryo.

It depends on how old the embryo is. If the embryo is 1 day old then there are fewer than if the embryo is 5 days old.

Stem cells are pluripotent, that is, they have the ability to differentiate and become any cell type in the body.

No, Stem cells are from Embryos and Embryos are from the seed of a man and the egg of a woman and stem cells result in the destruction of an Embryo and therefore is abortion and is murder.

The main ethical issue which has arisen with respect to the use of stem cells for medical purposes is that the best source of stem cells is the human embryo, but only if the embryo is aborted. The question then arises, was that embryo going to be aborted anyway, or was the decision to abort influenced by the need for stem cells. So then, we can argue that if an embryo was aborted specifically because of the wish to use its stem cells, it is not fair to kill that embryo, which otherwise could have become a human being. We might be in the position of killing one patient (if an embryo can be considered a patient) in order to save another, and that is not good ethics. There are, of course, also people who oppose abortion under any circumstances, whether stem cells are harvested or not, and these people will also have a problem with any use of embryonic stem cells, even when the abortion was going to happen anyway.

There are adult stem cells and there are embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells are found in many body tissues such as in the brain, neural stem cells, and in bone marrow. Also the embryonic stem cells, as you can tell by the name, are from the embryo which starts to develop into more recognizable specialized stem cells within three to four weeks after fertilization.

The cells are known as stem cells meaning they can become any cell type. The embryo becomes bigger because certain genes in the DNA are activated allowing the cell to divide or produce certain determination factors that will make a stem cell become a neuron, muscle cell, etc.... The embryo grows in size as the stem cells divide repeatedly and then some of the stem cells become actual specific cells.

Cord blood stem cells come from a newborn's umbilical cord while embryonic stem cells are harvested from a human embryo. Although the procedures involved in harvesting it are totally different. A doctor can immediately removed a newborn's umbilical cord and squeeze out those stem cells. Getting stem cells from the embryo requires to kill a forming fetus inside the womb and this procedure is considered unacceptable.

Embryonic stem cells (ESC) comes from embryos, and adult stem cells (ASC) come from adults. To get ESC, you have to destroy and embryo. Adults have stem cells throughout their body. They can easily be removed without inflicting harm on the adult.

The religious point of view about stem cells is that, since it requires the destruction of the embryo it is against God\'s will.

Yes and No. The only big difference is the procedures used in harvesting adult stem cells is considered legal and safe. There's no need to kill a human embryo. Adult stem cells can be harvested from cord blood or human bone marrow. But embryonic stem cells are able to make more kinds of cells than adult stem cells.