wide array of diseases and detrimental conditions‚ including pulmonary fibrosis‚ weakened immune systems and other birth or growth defects. Dolly the sheep‚ created by Professor Ian Wilmut‚ was the first mammal successfully cloned from and adult cell using nuclear transfer methods. (Foster‚ 10) As information has been gathered over the years and cloning has
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Cloning and Stem Cell Research S/P: To inform my audience about cloning and cell stem research. C/I: The benefits and ethical issues of cloning and cell stem research. Introduction Specific purpose: Today I’m going to inform you about “Cloning Technology and Stem Cell Research”. Attention getter: Imagine yourself dying from heart disease or liver failure‚ and the only way to live was to have an exact clone of your heart
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different ways. Arguments for this view Arguments against this view Development from a fertilized egg into to baby is a continuous process and any attempt to pinpoint when personhood begins is arbitrary. A human embryo is a human being in the embryonic stage‚ just as an infant is a human being in the infant stage. Although an embryo does not currently have the characteristics of a person‚ it will become a person and should be given the respect and dignity of a person. An early embryo that has
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http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286 Amy‚ D. J. (2007). A Guide to Rebutting Right-Wing Criticisms of Government. Retrieved from http://www.governmentisgood.com/feature.php?fid=14 Gold‚ R. B. (2004). Embryonic Stem Cell Research—Old Controversy; New Debate. Retrieved from http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/07/4/gr070404.html
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causes the disease. There is a part of the brain called the basal ganglia. This part of the brain has a role in controlling muscle movements. What happens is that nerve cells in the basal ganglia begin to die. These nerve cells contain a brain chemical called dopamine to help control muscle movement. Without dopamine‚ the nerve cells in the basal ganglia cannot properly send messages. This leads to the loss of muscle function which then is identified as Parkinson’s disease.
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1. Look up the definition of eugenics. Eugenics is the desire to improve the human gene pool by discouraging‚ or in some cases forcefully controlling‚ the reproduction of the unfit (Wellerstein pg. 29). The people branded to be "unfit"‚ were seen as recipients of undesirable heritable characteristics. The act of forcefully restricting people of reproduction is a form of negative eugenics. 2. What are the historical facts about sterilization in California? (time period‚ numbers‚ comparison with
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research‚ such as the funding of adult stem cell research by the Vatican. In the Philadelphia Inquirer‚ Cardinal Rigali commented on this research by saying “The Catholic Church’s rich heritage of ethical teaching in the medical-moral area and her duty to
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Stem Cell Research Stem cells are defined as “an undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type‚ and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation.” (Google) And as science has progressed in the last few decades‚ the ability to experiment and research these fascinating cells has progressed at an exponential rate. However‚ the controversy over this new scientific discovery has made it very difficult for
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Protein Mediated Generation of Human Induced Pluripotent Cells for Maximum Efficiency Project ID: 3244K Abstract Inefficiency of IPS cell generation is a major obstacle in the development of IPS based technologies‚ such as their use in regenerative medicine. Current methods are limited to approximately 20% efficiency and often come with a trade off in safety. We propose a new technology that would increase the rate of IPS reprogramming to nearly 100%. This technology entails the usage of
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ESTABLISH STEM CELL RESEARCH CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES Stem cell research can potentially help treat a range of medical problems; it could lead humanity closer to better treatment and possibly cure a number of diseases. Better treatment of these diseases could also give significant social benefits for individuals and increase the now slump economy. There is endless potential for scientists to learn about human growth and cell development from studying stem cells. Stem cells are the basic cells of
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