and the study of cytokines in the differentiation of cardiac tissue. I hope that one day it will be possible to grow whole hearts from a patients' own cells to replace their damaged or diseased hearts. This could effectively eliminate organ transplant waitlists for hearts. My interest in biomedical engineering over other science related fields stems from the fact that my mother is a nurse and my father was a lab technician while he was in the military. Sometimes he would take me to his work and I
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In the scientific movie, GATTACA, which is directed by Andrew Niccol, the main character, Vincent Freeman pursues his lifelong dream of going into space but is crushed to find out that he is genetically inferior, naming him in-valid. He doesn’t give up but instead decides to buy the genes of a valid specimen named Jerome Morrow. Throughout the whole movie he runs into minor and major conflict that puts him to the test. Genetically modifying offspring is a long process that is becoming more common
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Stem cells are specialized cells, which have the potential to divide into many different cell types during early life and growth. Subsequently, they can serve as an internal repair system and can divide without limit to replenish other damaged cells as long as the host is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem cell or become a different cell with a specialized function; i.e; muscle cells, red blood cells, or brain cells. Stems cells are differentiable
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Stem Cell Research Recently, there has been quite a lot of controversy among the media regarding the topic of stem cell research, its pros and cons, but what is this controversy really about? The term “stem” cells can be compared with another much known term: “differentiated” cells. The importance they bring to the humankind is that of the hope of new medical advancements being deposited into these cells because of their amazing capability to develop in almost any type of cell. For example, spinal
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already exists. The other method for producing cloned humans, nuclear transfer, does not suffer from these limitations, and the rest of this article will focus on human cloning achieved via this technique. Nuclear transfer (or more specifically somatic cell nuclear transfer) is a conceptually simple procedure. The J. A. Byrne ¡ J. B. Gurdon ( ) Wellcome CRC Institute, Tennis Court Road Cambridge CB2 1QR and Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK e-mail: j.gurdon/welc.cam.ac.uk Fax: π44 1223
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Zac Braun Stem Cell Research Free Write In todays world of medicine, stem cell research is considered to be the most modern of all forthcoming forms of therapy, when in fact it is not. Stem cells were discovered in 1961 by Dr. James Till and Ernest McCulloch who both worked at the Ontario cancer institute at the time. The existence of stem cells and their ability to essentially transform into any other type of cell in the human body was an incredible first step in the long since developed and
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Stem Cell research is a very controversial topic in today’s society. This topic brings up many ethical questions about it is right to do the research or not. Stem cells come from embryos that are only a few days old. The ethical issues that arise are many. If one believes that an embryo is a baby upon fertilization, then one would feel that this was unethical to do the research no matter what the benefits would be. On the other hand, some feel the benefits of what can be learned from stem cell research
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affects movement), actor Michael J. Fox has been a vocal advocate for stem cell research. His foundation has donated more than $205 million to help fund Parkinson's research. Fox and his foundation are hoping that scientists will one day be able to coax stem cells into producing dopamine, a chemical in the body that is deficient in patients with Parkinson's disease. Fox focuses on other drug and treatment options; adult stem-cell research continues to show promise of helping individuals with a variety
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The Ethical Issue of Stem Cell Research Shawn Black PHI 107 Professor Joseph Scahill November 14, 2008 Stem cell the new frontier of medical break through poses an important ethical dilemma for humanity do we support the destruction of embryos to further science or do we support the protection of embryos. We are faced with a critical decision to protect embryos from being a part of a science experiment or do we think that it is ethical to kill a few embryos in the name of science
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Americans' tolerance toward having a baby outside of marriage is also now much greater, up 15 points since 2001, to the current 60%. Americans have also become significantly more accepting of sex between an unmarried man and woman, divorce, embryonic stem cell research, polygamy, and cloning humans. The only issue that Americans have become significantly less accepting of over the last 12 years is medical testing on animals. These data are from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey, most recently
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