Embryonic Stem Cell Research is an important process that is already allowing scientists to test new drugs and figure out the cause of birth defects. The process is very delicate because scientists must work with a four to ten day old blastocyst to get the stem cells. They put the stem cells into a petri dish along with proteins and enzymes. The stew of cells‚ enzymes‚ and proteins is what helps regenerate the bad tissues that cause diseases. “Blastocysts can also potentially be created from a donor
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Stem Cell Research 1. Introduction a. Attention-getter: b. Thesis: Today‚ I will persuade you to support stem cell research‚ because it holds the potential for great medical advancements. c. Credibility: I studied a lot of biology. Plus‚ I feel passionate about this issue. d. Relevance: In the future‚ our generation will be the one making medical breakthroughs and creating medical policy. Plus‚ we’ll all get old someday and possibly need medical treatments. e. Background: Stems cells are
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day I got my transplant was‚ by oncology standards‚ relatively normal. It started with an ambulance ride from CHOP to HUP for my final round of radiation. After the radiation‚ I returned to my hospital room and waited. Finally‚ a bag of bright red stem cells collected from the veins of my donor came up from the lab and a nurse attached them to a catheter that was surgically implanted in my chest. The moment that I had been waiting for had arrived.
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Stem Cells and the Future of Developmental Medicine Stem cells have a remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. Stem cells undergo processes to form new types of cells which can have a specialized function. According to this function‚ lives could be saved by the formation of new tissues and organs. Some of the specialized cells are muscle cells‚ brain cells or blood cells. Although stem cell research is debatable due to moral concerns
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Subjectivism Each every person in the room is a subject. There no way to make a judgment between 2 people. Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people‚ or that any ethical sentence implies an attitude held by someone. As such‚ it is a form of moral relativism in which the truth of moral claims is relative to the attitudes of individuals (as opposed to‚ for instance‚ communities). Consider
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Embryonic Stem Cell: Threat to Life and Humanity Every year‚ about 7.9 million infants are born with serious birth defects‚ which is about 6% of infants born worldwide. In the United States alone‚ there are more than 4.4 million to 7.7 million of people with developmental disabilities and about 60% of their population’s deaths were due to degenerative diseases. These figures explain the outpour of comments and criticisms as well as hopes and controversies with the introduction of stem cell therapy
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Outline Thesis Statement: Research on stem cells is advancing knowledge about how an organism develops from a single cell and how healthy cells replace damaged cells in organisms. The promise of this research is that if scientist can convert stem cell into regular cells like blood or heart muscles and put it back into the body‚ then maybe they might find a cure for some of the diseases that plague our world now a days such as Parkinson’s‚ diabetes‚ leukemia‚ heart congestion‚ bone marrow and many
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The human genome project‚ together with research on stem cells‚ will form the basis of most medical treatments in the next few decades. Before discussing this statement it is important to analyse each component. What is a genome? And why is it relevant to us? A genome is the building block of all living organisms‚ it consists of the mapping or instructions to how an organism functions‚ and it does this through the use of DNA and genes. Genes are a group of DNA; Genes hold instructions and information
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Explain the different positions on research on embryos taken by Sandel on the one hand and by George and Lee on the other hand. Sandal is a formidable opponent of genetic enhancing‚ but this idea is often tied to research and is commonly done on embryos. His entire argument is based one seeking moral grounds for doing research on embryos‚ which ultimately destroys them. In his argument sandal uses the morality of the embryo to be tested on the support his claim that research should not be done on embryos
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STEM CELLS: THE BAD VS. THE GOOD THE BACKGROUND The use of embryonic stem cells to treat human diseases; is it unethical‚ questionable‚ helpful‚ in violation of law and policy or just the right answer for many‚ many diseases? All of these are great questions and are all questions that everyone and everybody has an opinion on at one time or another. To first really understand the controversy surrounding stem cell research you must know a little about its base; embryonic stem cells‚ “they are
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