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... This miracle cure can possibly be found through embryonic stem sell research. But these miracles can’t happen if the research is outlawed. Embryonic stem cell research should not be outlawed because of the vast medical benefits this research can yield.
Scientists are working diligently on stem cell research in hopes of maximizing the use of stem cells. Scientists are primarily working with two kinds of stem cells, embryonic and adult or somatic stem cells. Scientists discovered ways to obtain or derive stem cells from early mouse embryos more than twenty years ago. Many years of study on the biology of mouse stem cells led to the discovery, in 1998, of how to isolate stem cells from human embryos and grow the cells in the laboratory. Embryos used in these studies were created for infertility purposes through in virto fertilization procedures and when they were no longer needed for that purpose, donated for research with informed consent from the donor.
Stem cells have two important characteristics that distinguish them from other types of cells. First, they are unspecialized cells that renew themselves for long periods of time through cell division. ...
Stem cells are very important to living organisms for many reasons. In the three to five day old embryo, called a blastocyst, a small group of about thirty cells called the, inner cell mass, gives rise to the hundreds of highly specialized cells needed to make up an adult organism. In the developing fetus, stem cells in developing tissues give rise to the multiple specialized cell types that make up the heart, lung, skin, and other tissues in the human body.
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