TASK A
1) Who is the first author of this article? What is the author’s intention? Is the information fact, opinion, or propaganda? Is the author’s point of view objective and impartial? Is the language free of emotion rousing words or bias?
The first author named on this article is Peter W. Marks, who is the director of the Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research. I believe that Mark’s intent in writing this article was to explore the positive and negative points involved in stem cell therapy, but for the most part focusing on the negative outcomes that can potentially and have already occurred. Whether this article is true fact, based on an opinion or simply just propaganda is not evidently obvious. I believe that a large portion of
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Stem cells are the foundation for every organ and tissue in the human body (Worldhealth, 2017). Stem cells are cells with the ability to differentiate into many different types of cells in the body. Stem cells come from two different sources, one being adult tissue and the other being embryos formed during embryonic development, these being embryonic stem cells.
Adult Stem cells
Adult (also known as somatic) stem cells are thought to be an undifferentiated (a cell that has not yet developed into another cell variation) cell. They found throughout the body after embryonic development has occurred, and these cells are found in tissues such as the brain, blood, blood vessels and marrow, the skin, skeletal muscles and the liver. The main roles of adult stem cells are to repair and maintain the tissue in which they are found.
Embryonic Stem Cells
Embryonic stem cells come from human embryo that is in the blastocyst phase, which is defined as an embryo that has developed for five to seven days after fertilization and has 2 distinct cell types and a central cavity filled with fluid (Sherbahn, 2016). They are able to develop into more than 200 cell types of the adult body when
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They have a sound understanding of just how much stem cell therapy has the potential to do, and are willing to make this sacrifice for the treatment of people who need it.
Religious individuals tend to completely disagree as the concept of terminating an embryo goes against all of their beliefs as it is seen to be ‘murder’ of a living being. The fact that cloning is a possibility from stem cell research also goes against their beliefs as it would cause someone else to be a god-like person.
The general public are mostly supportive of stem cell therapy as everyone tends to know someone who suffers from an illness that could be treated if further research was to be completed. They are not fully aware of the benefits or negative outcomes so they are rather neutral but more on the supportive
For these reasons, embryonic stem cell research should be discouraged. According to the National Institutes of
Ian Kerridge and Ronald Fung in "Uncertain Translation, Uncertain Benefit And Uncertain Risk: Ethical Challenges Facing First-In-Human Trials Of Induced Pluripotent Stem (Ips) Cells" talk about the discovery of “induced pluripotent stem (iPS)” in 2006 and its application in cell replacement therapy, and how it changed the debate on the ethics stem cell. In the article Ian and Ronald explain how iPS is different from the regular stem cell, and how it changes the debate of ethics in this matter. The problems with the ethics and stem cells are the experiments, and use of embryos, and ova taken from women and do research with it. Although the iPS is one alternative to the stem cell research, are different from the normal human stem cells. In conclusion
Embryonic stem cell treatment has the potential to be very beneficial to our society. Nevertheless, many people oppose the use of embryonic stem cells due to the fact that they are extracted from human embryos. They believe that embryos are human life and should possess the same rights that humans do.
Many people argue that the embryo dies from this, which is why I thought I was going to be against this. But, there ways that stem cell research can be done without killing embryos. Also, the research from this could potentially lead to the cure of cancer which would save millions of lives. One of the biggest
People who want to protect the lives of infants say we should not practice embryonic stem research on embryos because they believe it is unethical and they care about the lives of children. Since their beliefs and values differ from those of the religious beliefs and philosophical thinkers, they tend to have different reasons, and they tend to cite different evidence in support of their claim. For example, in “embryonic stem cell debate brings politics ethics to bench” Charles Marwick argues a principal claim in stark contrast to the position held by Glick. Whereas Glick said, “embryonic stem cell is ethical,” Marwick replies, “that embryonic stem cell is unethical.” And Marwick further supports his her principal claim with reasons that reflect his values and beliefs.
Today, our technology is advancing at an ever increasing rate. Science and medicine are making breakthroughs that improve everyone’s quality of life. Life saving medicine, previously limited to the realm of science fiction, is within our grasp. And part of that future is due in part to the amazing research being done with stem cells. However, there are laws in place that prevent scientists from getting as much use as possible from cells derived from embryos, which is the most abundant source.
As seen in Figure 2, successful stem cell therapy can potentially be used to cure multiple diseases that affect humans
As expected simple research is permitted by human es cells is likely to make a big change in human health in ways that’s not linked to transplantation medicine . Several groups have made an gesture to explain growth factors that assist human ES cells to non human animal products . Here are some more reasons that embryonic stem cell research is a good thing . At many different tips during the procedure of cause embryonic stem cell research stem cell lines scientists experiment to see whether or not they show
How would you feel if you tried something new that was putting your life in danger? It’s also a fifty percent chance of you making it through the new procedure. Embryonic stem research have not a total success in this world today. First, the treatments may not even work on a person why get your hopes up high. Second, they’re doing this thing called human cloning.
On the contrary, people do support the idea of Embryonic stem cells because they think that it will help science find new ways to make cures for different
In 2001, under George W Bush presidency, an ethical controversy started, against of a lot of people principles and opinion the federal government authorized founds for stem cell research, this is a topic where everybody have their own opinion some of them based on morality issues and others on medical and science progress. There are two main stem cell types, embryonic and adults and being the embryonic stem cell research the one which has create more controversy it is important for me to know and understand each of them in order to agree or disagree with this research. Embryonic Stem Cells Embryonic stem cell also known as an unspecialized stem cells are the cells found in the inner cell mass in the embryo, these cells will form all of the different parts of the body and are capable to growth into more specific cells or tissues to help with different diseases, illness and medical treatments. At the beginning the way to obtain embryonic stem cells obligate the early embryo to be destroy, latest news has reveal new process where the embryo stays
The variety of diseases stem cells can potentially cure are limitless, and yet there are people who are opposed to stem cell research. This opposition to stem cell research comes from the fact that one of the various methods by which stem cells are collected is from embryonic
yet it’s there.” Stem Cell causes numerous consequences for, it was not reliable and this should undertake deeper studies on the other hand this was the only hope for the person suffering from diseases. We should thank God for the life we have. All of us have a special purpose, it is to live and do God’s will. People were God’s creation all of us were obliged to love one another not to hurt others especially the embryos inside the mother’s
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that can differentiate into specialized cells. Stem cells come from two sources, embryos, and adult tissue. Embryonic stem cells come from when an embryo is in the blastocyst phase of its development The use of embryonic stem cells is a very controversial idea due to the fact the embryo could potentially become a child. Stem cells are unique and are important to research because they may hold the cure to many disorders and diseases. Embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells are very different, but also very much alike.
There are millions of these cells inside the human body, and each has a different type of responsibility, or function. There are an infinite amount of cell types, and a few examples of these types are: 1) muscle cells, 2) nerve