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by AB-Joel on May 17th, 2004

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What are the potential benefits of stem cell research?

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  • by Nohbdy on June 11th, 2004

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    There are many potential benefits in stem cell research. The main benefit is to gain the ability to duplicate parts of your body (arms, legs, heart, spinal cord, etc.). This would drastically change the world of medicine. Every time someone had to get a lung (or any organ) transplanted there would be no need to find a doner; and once the lung (or any organ for that matter) is transplanted, the patient would not have to recieved drugs afterwards, because his immune system would automatically accept the lung. Also, organs that cannot possibly be donated and accepted in a new body (like spinal tissue) could be duplicated. This means if you are parylized (the spinal cord fractures), your spinal tissue could be duplicated by stem cells and then trasplanted. There are probably more potentials of this kind of research, but I do not know enough about them to explain in full.

    But here is how stem cell research works. when I say stem cells, I am referring to a cell that grows in to a certain organ, think of it as a seed. All humans are is a collection of organs. An embryo in its first stages is a collection of stem cells that grow into organs. to get an exact copy of your heart is to clone an embryo using your DNA; and when the stem cell for the heart developes, you extract that, then you have your heart.

    This is unless you use adult stem cells (these are not from an embryo), but these stem cells are much harder to work with and the technology to utylize these cells is years ahead of us unfortunately.

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