Stem cells are unspecialized cell, they are cells that have the potential to develop into any type of cells in the body. Stem cells are served as sort of a repair and replace system. Our bodies create stem cells to repair or replace damaged or worn out tissues in the bodies, this is why stem cells are very important to all living organisms as they are the cure for our bodies. Stem cells have a potential to renew themselves through division systems. It can be divided with no limits to create new
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I think that the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research should be continued since if this research is successful, it can be beneficial for all human beings and encourage further development. Because hESC is pluripotent, it can transform to any other types of cell. Thus, it can be used to cure many diseases that are incurable, such as type-1 diabetes and genetic disorders. Many people will gain from the hESC research. Moreover, the research also encourages many further developments
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studies in therapeutic approaches have been doing widely and kept increasing at accelerated pace. A lot of research areas had emerged for that purpose including one of the most fascinating and highly active areas at present, stem cells therapies. Due to self-renewal property and differentiation capability of stem cell, it becomes a new hope in modern treatment. The first successful case of stem cell therapy in human was reported in 1959. Bone marrow restorations were observed in leukemia patients who
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The topic I picked is epigenetics and more specifically Induced Pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs). IPSCs are artificially derived typically adult somatic cells. IPSCs have become important in research due to them being a better option than embryo derived stem cells. Epigenetics means above the gene. Epigenetics is the study of changes in the way the genes are expressed by a mechanism other than by changing the nucleotide sequence. In epigenetics can activate genes that aren’t expressed while not changing
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Pioneers -Anthony Atala was the first to build a functioning organ from scratch—a bladder made cell by cell—and put it into a patient, a child whose own bladder was congenitally deformed. Since that breakthrough a decade ago, the 50-year-old pediatric urologist, director of Wake Forest University's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has moved on to cobbling up bones, heart valves, muscles, and some 20 other body parts -Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, a collaboration that has yielded one of the
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embryonic stem cells in infracted cardiac microenvironment Reference: Meijuan Gao, Jin Yang, Guoqiang Liu, Rui Wei, Lin Zhang, Haining Wang, Guang Wang, Hongwei Gao, Guian Chen, Tianpei Hong, Ghrelin promotes the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in infarcted cardiac microenvironment, Peptides, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 373-379, ISSN 0196-9781, 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.02.006. Background: Human embryonic stem cells (hESC’s) are derived from inner cell mass of blastocyst
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Cell division is the basic of reproduction for all living things. It is important and indeed in all living organisms. It enables the multicellular organisms to grow until the adult size, when the cell division plays role in reproducing cell into more new cells. Besides, cell division also replaces the worn-out or damaged cells in order to maintain the total cells numbers in a mature individual relatively constant. For instance is, there are millions of cells in human’s body will divide themselves
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Response to “How fetal tissue is used in medical research” The general argument made by the author in “How fetal tissue is used in medical research” is that the use fetal tissue is generally a good thing for society, and should be embraced. More specifically, the author argues that this practice will, and has, helped “virtually every person in this country.” and it could possibly help to cure diseases such as cancer, diabetes, birth defects, HIV, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and Alzheimer’s. They write
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In the video of star trek on ethics. I believe the film is about the basic principle of experimental research on human and the future of medicine as portray by star trek. It is important when conducting research that the basic principles of an experiment on human are observed. These basic principles include obtaining the informed consent of the participant, minimizing the risk of harm, protecting the anonymity and confidentiality, avoiding deceptive practices, providing the right to withdraw, and
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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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