Stem Cell Research

i've heard that the umibical cord also carries stem cells. why not use that. it's leftover anyways.

 

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You can't just use something because it is a leftover. For instance you need special permission to use fertilized eggs that fertilization clinics are not using.

Because people like to think that they have ethics.

 

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Matter of fact America leads the way in stem cell research only the federal government doesn't do as much as it could to contribute large sums of money for more research. American mediacal research companies would love the Fed to open the flood gates of money to them to enrich them even more than they already are. Private firms NEVER give anything back to the federal government if the reap huge profits from whatever the may find but always have their hand out to recieve everything they can get.

 

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stem cells are the master cells of the body they can make them selfs into what ever cells it is told to. Need a new liver trigger a stem cell to grow a new one. or just inject stem cells triggered to grow liver cells into a damaged one to make it work better.

 

Stem cells can be used to grow entire new organs for a person. Need a new liver? They can grow one from a stem cell culture. Stem cells can even be used to repair nerve and brain damage. The beauty of them is that they are very generalized cells that can change into any sort of cell in the human body.

Though maybe you were being facetious? "How can stem cells do that?" well that is just what the research we are not funding would find out, now isn’t it?

 

Spymoose, he was indeed being facetious, since this is more or less his field of expertise. I don't think that we are quite as far as you think we are though. We can certainly cause stem cells to differentiate into various types of cells, as they would in our body, but we cannot grow organs in vitro. We can grow sheets of liver cells, but not a functioning liver.

 

If you say so.

 

I donated the umbilical cord from my second child to LifeSource.

I've heard on the news that the Pancreas also has a high number of stem cells. Stem Cells don't always come from human embryos.

No one is killing viable fetuses to further research. They are simply inseminated eggs that have split a few times. We eat them all the time at breakfast and no one seems to have an ethical issue about that. (Well some do, but I personally feel those folks are half-baked already.)

 

I'm really surprised that this is even an issue. And I thought basic biology was required education in high school. Do that many people drop out of school before eighth grade, or am I over-estimating the education system? Stem-cell research has the potential of being the largest medical breakthrough since, well, medicine. We should all do everything we can do to support this amazing technology.

 

Hey christians tell Ur fathers that RawThinkTank is here to help humans.

If they have problem with the nerveless embroys then so be it. Put all your money in cell division research, find out how to divide stemcell directly without an egg, study how the egg does that in the first place. Create tons of stemcells from one.

Any suggestions on how to go about are welcome, critics are also welcomed to blast the above idea.

p.s. What is even more disturbing is that these fathers blatently discriminate between humans and animals. I mean humans are animals , why is it that animals can be eaten but not humans, for christians this is all justa matter of convinience for thier bellies, thats what I expect from humans.

 

Since when is stem cell research equal to abortion. The last time I checked my English grammar basics, there was still a difference between PAST TENSE and FUTURE TENSE...meaning, if the fetus is ALREADY DEAD (i.e. past tense, the fetus died) then the stem cells can be thrown away and wasted, or they can be studied for the benefit of all.

Also, the last time I checked, the past/present/future tenses applied in religions as well.

 

I'm pro-stem cell research, new parts is the coolest thing to me.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/08/27/jaw.transplant.ap/index.html

 

you can also get stem cells from hair follicles and baby teeth. keep em coming. :m:

 

Haha, what the fuck? I can see the headlines in the future when, in a freak med school prank, a bunch of residents plant a penis in the mouth of the class shill.

As for the topic Persol said it best. I really see no reason why to ban something in a just because it might stance, when it's not grounded in some relevant facts. That's just dumb.

 

Hey U christian fathers U killed our SuperMan

 

Big Deal !

Point is , is the embryo suffering more than the suffering or disabled people ,

cosmictraveler U r from the lost generation and Ur ego will never let U change Ur views on this. U should find out if the embryo suffers and after what stage of development before or after development of nerves.

Talk about this U big mouth.

 

alright, here's the short and skinny of embryonic stem cells.

embryonic stem cells are the first cells that the fertilized egg devides into. they are completely generic, identical cells, that absolutely have the potential to become correctly functionioning cells of any other type in the body because they eventually DO produce and become all those tissues. They are not arrested in a stem cell state, and they are not influenced or regulated by other factors in the body like stem cells found within more developed tissues are.

cell biologists are still trying to come to grips with what makes different cell types act so differently - they all have the same chromosomes, the same DNA. somehow the DNA in chromosomes is tweaked during 'differentiation' - the process of stem cells becoming specific cell types - so that different patterns of DNA/gene expression become dominant -yeilding the tissue-specific behavior. understanding this process is inherantly very interesting - fundamental almost. and as such, harbors some very revolutionary potential for medicine.

of course, studying the biological aspects can be explored with animal models. However, animal biochemistry is too different if we ever want to use the knowledge for medical advancement - of which I dont think I have to go into; the potential is simply enormous.

but that is why human embryonic stem cells are such a hot issue. there is no substitute.

 

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No, that statement is not technically correct. ES cells do not arise until the blastocyst stage. Before the blastocyst stage, the fertilized zygote divides and develops into a solid ball of cells (the “morella”). The cells of the morella are not ES cells. ES cells, when they do first appear, are present in the inner cell mass of the blastocyst. Furthermore, I do not think that all the cells of the inner cell mass are ES cells.<P>

 

Ok, caught me, Im a biochemist, not a developmental biologist (havent had a course on biology above the single-cell level since high school). But the explanation about the differentiation and chromatin structure is accurate.