Wichaya Jinakul October 11‚ 2012 ENG 102; 8.00 AM Final Argument Essay Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Should Not Be Banned According to John A. Robertson‚ co-chair of the ethics committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine‚ “In November 1998‚ a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin and a team at Jonhs Hopkins University published reports of the first successful isolation and culturing of human ES cells”(qtd. in Ruse and Pynes‚ 121). For over a decade‚ many
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Human should use embryonic stem cells to treat disease Stem cells can separate into different specialized cells and they are undifferentiated biological cells. It can also produce more stem cells through mitosis. Stem cells are found in organism that made by more than one cell such as mammals. There are two types of stem cells which are embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Their characteristics are depends on their potential to build into different cell types such as muscle‚ heart‚ lung‚ bones
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and reproductive cloning techniques are very similar‚ concluding the same results‚ but are used for different types of practice. Development of therapeutic and reproductive cloning has been measured through the methods of nuclear transfer (SCNT) and embryo twinning. On the contrary‚ the development of molecular cloning is a method of inserting a foreign DNA into a vector‚ which is then left under laboratory conditions for it to multiply and replicate numerous times. Nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a very
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Stem Cell Research | Why is it controversial? | Jessica Moss‚ Sabrina Sherrod‚ Bridget Sellers‚ Norlisha Taylor and Souriya Soukhaphanith | Contents Introduction (Background Information) (Jessica Moss) 4 Historical Development and Context‚ factors that drove the technology (Sabrina Sherrod) 5 Stem Cell Legislation(Jessica Moss) 8 Political Issues (Bridget Sellers) 9 Social and Psychological Issues (Norlisha Taylor) 12 Moral and Ethical Issues (Souriya Soukhaphanith) 14 Environmental
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replace damaged cells. With all this wonderful technology in our reach Ethics holds back the development of research. Ethics have been controversial surrounding this research. In the past years research took embryonic stem cells from an aborted embryo to get materials to study. In this case the issue arises that stem cell research may be used to clone. There are many arguments about the use of stem cells. The biggest fear of cloning arose in 1997 with the cloning of Dolly a sheep which was created
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person. Because Pope John Paul II views life as beginning at conception‚ he strongly opposes abortion at any stage. The basis for his argument is that an embryo is an innocent being that can not defend itself at all and is completely dependent on the mother for everything. This point is correct because an embryo has not done anything to anyone; the embryo was created by the actions of the mother and father‚ and it is for this reason it can be said
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different crop to continue a specific trait (Farrell and Carson-Dewitt 1). Therapeutic cloning is another type of cloning in which stem cells‚ a type of cell able to grow into different types of cells of the same organism‚ are taken from the cloned embryo and used for medical purposes to replace diseased or damaged cells in the human body. Robert P. Lanza‚ Jose B. Cibelli‚ and Michael D. West ‚ authors of the article “Human Therapeutic Cloning”‚ explain the procedure for human therapeutic cloning stating:
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research; however‚ there are those who are not‚ based on their religious convictions and moral beliefs. As it pertains to embryonic stem cells‚ many Americans see research on embryos as morally wrong‚ and that embryonic research should not be performed for any reason. These Americans also believe that the destruction of an embryo is ending a human life because life for them begins at conception. Before looking at the social issues of the human stem cell‚ it is important to understand what
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Brave New World‚ a science fiction novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1932 envisioned a future where all human beings were created in a lab; their‚ genes were manipulated‚ and the undesirable characteristics were removed. The embryos were modified to achieve certain levels of intelligence‚ physical strength and beauty. Little did Huxley know that his imagination is now possibly becoming a reality. In the recent decades‚ the field of human genetic engineering has become one of the major areas in science
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be cloned.[7] In the case of someone with Alzheimer’s disease‚ the nucleus from a skin cell of that patient is placed into an empty egg. The reprogrammed cell begins to develop into an embryo because the egg reacts with the transferred nucleus. The embryo will become genetically identical to the patient.[7] The embryo will then form a blastocyst which has the potential to form/become any cell in the
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