What are the potential benefits of stem cell research?

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.

Practical application of knowledge gained such as cures and new organs.

We will get to learn a lot more about those pesky stem cells.

I think that a potential benefit of stem cell research is that it can repair bone cells from broken bones and can fight off diseases. Totally useful.

Contrary to Nohbdy's otherwise excellent post, my reading is pretty clear that fetal stem cell research is a dead end, while non-fetal stem cell research holds all the potential he describes.

Also, contrary to popular disinformation, in the US both fetal and non-fetal stem cell research are totally legal. What is illegal is government funding of fetal stem cell research. The 8-billion dollar per year For Profit abortion industry, however, is lobbying heavily for Federal funding of fetal stem cell research so they can make even more money off of taxpayers by selling their "industrial waste" to Federally funded "research" projects.

If fetal stem-cell research were the great universal panacea that its advocates claim, the bio-tech industry would be stampeding to make the most of this supposed bonanza. But they know fetal stem-cell's do not hold the key to growing new healthy genetically-matched replacement organs, and so devote their research to more promising non-fetal stem cell research.

they can help the body to grow a new are if needed
for example like on harry potter how harry grows a new bone in his arm whe ine breaks
that is waht stem cell can do

to heal, extend life, cure diseases do we realy need stem cell research to do more

I've also heard that cells in the embryo umbilical chords can adapt to different bodies blood types to help cure cancer when the blood is infected.

It's educational.??

A cure for hangovers!

My 2 cents.

they can help the body to grow a new arm if needed
for example like on harry potter how harry grows a new bone in his arm when he breaks
that is waht stem cell can do

What is a "potential benefit"?

Some might say that it may be possible to cure all kinds of things and grow replacement parts, etc. While some possibilities or preliminary results may appear promising, it remains a possibility that all of the speculation may be wrong, and billions of dollars spent over several decades might never do anybody any good. In medical research and development, for each research project that makes it to market many do not.

That thom64 kid should use some stem cells to grow a fucking dick. Your a joke dude, stem cells have been proven to differentiate themselves into ANY cell in the body when extracted from the inner cell mass of a blastophist. Learn your shit before you try to sound smart and open your fat trap shit gobbler.

That thom64 kid should use some stem cells to grow a fucking dick. Your a joke dude, stem cells have been proven to differentiate themselves into ANY cell in the body when extracted from the inner cell mass of a blastophist. Learn your shit before you try to sound smart and open your fat trap shit gobbler.

You are kidding, right? Or did Bush put you up to this?

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Stem cell research is the advanced knowledge of cell development in a human or animal body. It is also the study of how a healthy cell can replace a damaged or dead cell in the body.

Stem cell research is the advanced knowledge of cell development in a human or animal body. It is also the study of how a healthy cell can replace a damaged or dead cell in the body. This part is studied to bring out certain cell based therapies to fight against diseases as scientists believe these stem cells could be used as the basis for treatment of diseases such as diabetes and cardiac malfunctions. As of today in biology, stem cells are the most prominent area of study and research.

Stem cells exist as non specialist cells which renew there self for a period of time during cell division and under certain scenarios can be induced to become cells with special functions. Often these special cells have formed interesting tissues like heart beating muscle or the insulin production in the pancreas.

Every living organism develops tissues with the help of a blastocyst (an old embryo) and every such development brings in different types of cells which further develop to form body organs like lungs, skin, heart and other parts like muscle, brain and bone marrow.

Brain and muscle stem cells have been discovered with replacement cells which would regenerate lost cells (via injury or disease) automatically to fill the void. Stem cell research and results are extremely promising for the up coming future and still needs more extensive research to bring the best benefits in hope to help fight against life threatening diseases.