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![]() ![]() Credits: 14,647 | Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? Hello members of AO! Nice to see you all and hope you are all doing well. Another debatable issue has come to my attention and that is stem cell research. For those who do not know about stem cell research or the controversy behind it, I will explain the whole situation below. What are the benefits of stem cell research? Imagine a world where transplants could be done without the sacrifice of another person losing an organ. This world exists only within the boundaries of stem cell research. What stem cell research strives to achieve is the cultivating and nuturing of stem cells, the basic cell of the body, enabling it to be reproduced to other specific part of the body. The implications are obvious, limbs and organs could be grown from scratch in a lab, and then used in transplants or to cure illnesses. By providing the raw material for virtually every kind of human tissue, new treatments for a wide range of human diseases including diabetes, heart disease, some forms of cancer, and Parkinson's disease can now be developed. This research also benefits the study of development events that cannot be studied directly in a human embryo, which would cause major clinical consequences such as birth defects, infertility and pregnancy loss. Amore complete understanding of normal development will ultimately allow the prevention or treatment of abnormal human development. Another advantage is the ability to test millions of potential drugs and medicine, without the use of animals or human testers. This requires a process of simulating the effect the drug has on a specific population of cells. This would tell if the drug is useful or problematic. What are the disadvantages of stem cell research? There are no problems surrounding the method of research. However, the problem lies in the source of the stem cells. As explained in the methods section, the stem cells are either obtained from pluripotent cells in human embryos or fetuses. This leads to many under handed means to obtain the embryos or fetus, causing problems in the "organs black market". This entire situation gives rise to the illegal sale of the embryos or fetus by doctors. The research in stem cells have also raised many religious and social issues. Now that you know all this do you think we should federally fund stem cell research?
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![]() ![]() Credits: 26,859 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? It's a dead thread now but here are the opinions of some of the AO members: http://www.animeonline.net/debate-an...highlight=cell
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![]() ![]() Credits: 210 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? First of all it is federally funded you just never hear about it you have to go digging to find answers you may be looking for... Second of all if we can breed animals for science why's it wrong to breed humans for science answer me that... Whats the difference because to me there really isnt a difference.. Every animal is a sentient being. So morals dont count for this... |
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![]() ![]() Credits: 4,474 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? i think that we should federally fund it because that will probably lead to a decrease in illegal activities. if you can get it legaly then why take risks? and there is no other sure-fire way to stop it because now that we know we CAN scientists have to DO it, no matter how the do it. |
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wtf mate? | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? ^ I agree with you on this one fayt lingod! lol Then only thing that I hope the government does though, is to regularly check what the institution is doing - eg. no making clones or perfect babies.
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![]() ![]() Credits: 5,599 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? Quote:
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i mean there are mor positive reaosns than negative no matter how much you want to disagree on this.
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![]() ![]() Credits: 4,474 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? i would hope that was understood. but thanx for pointing it out anyway. |
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![]() ![]() Credits: 3,533 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? Breeding humans for research.........yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. I understand if they used the stem cells of let's say when women get abortions, but to breed and grow embryos for the purpose of destroying them for research is just wrong. I would rather die than accept any treatment that involved the intentional destruction of them. But, that's just my opinion. |
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wtf mate? | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? ^ It's not done like that in most cases, infact all it is is a CELL not an embryo. Click the link that Hassun pointed out. This thread is more about the actually funding of it..
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![]() ![]() Credits: 9,252 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? i know there is more than one way of obtaining stem cell, though it not as productive than extracting them from embryo's and fetuses as such. i think they can be extracted form bone marrow, but they don't get enough out of it and i think they'll find it hard for some ppl to donate some. and the only thing that really putting a dampener on the research are the numurous religious groups, and there beliefs about humans and stuff. personally, i'm not 2 fund of ending a life (it can even be call a potential life) for the sake of extending or improving one's life. however we do it all the time, i mean just eating meat is proff of it, and so since these embryos aren't fully developed and in theory they are just developing cells or cells in general. we can say they are lifeless, since they are just like an arm or leg or an organ, etc, just cells. but if they are able to collect them from different source, there would be such a big problem there is now... but there is always the problem where if we wont do it some1 else will. it always happens.
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![]() ![]() Credits: 3,533 | Re: Stem Cell Research: Should it be Federally Funded? Well, if religion is brought into this, god put certain animals on the earth for people to eat. I don't think god wanted us to use embryos, which have the potential of becoming another human being, just to help extend our lives or to create cures for anything. What right do we have to stop a life from being created for our own selfish needs. And on the note of government involvment, it limited the funding to the research, which is good because I think I read they won't fund any research that involves further destruction of embryos for stem-cell research. I'm not sure if that's the case now or not. |
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