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Rafael Martins Paul Lonquich CSUN Emerging Issues in Regenerative Medicine 13. March 2014 Stem Cell Research and its controversy When the subject is stem cell research our first reaction is to think about a new perspective of life, in which diseases could be treated and cured, lives could be saved, and even prolonging life on earth passes through our mind. The ability to divide and self-renew, causes the stem-cells to become a great promise for the future. Stem Cells are the only cells in the human body that can differentiate, or specialize, into other cell types. These abilities make the stem cell research increase every year, in which researchers are always looking for answers that no other technology could present. As good as it looks stem cells research also have some controversy, in which for some reasons make the dream of treating and curing becomes farther than we can imagine (Mummery 46 - 47). Around the 1800s cells were taken as the building blocks of life and also it was proposed that cells had the ability to produce other cells. There were many attempts to fertilize mammalian eggs outside of the actual human body. Later in the early 1900s researchers discovered that some cells had the ability to produce blood cells. In 1968 two brothers with lymphopenic immune deficiency and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome were treated by the first bone marrow transplant ever performed (Bone Marrow Transplantation). Stem cell research had a remarkable growth throughout history, and it is still growing nowadays. In the year of 1978 the stem cells were found in the human cord blood, and the first in vitro stem cell line developed from mice was later on realized at 1981. During the year of 1995 the experiences with a primate resulted on the fir... ... middle of paper ... ...rrow Transplantation ." Bone Marrow Transplantation. Ed. Stuart M. Greenstein, MD. WebMD LLC, 14 Nov. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. Mummery, C. L. Stem Cells: Scientific Facts and Fiction. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic, 2011. Print. Murnaghan, Ian. "History of Stem Cell Research." History of Stem Cell Research. ExploreStemCells, 3 Mar. 2014. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. Murnaghan, Ian. "Stem Cell Controversy." Stem Cell Controversy. ExploreStemCells, 17 Feb. 2014. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. Stöppler, Melissa Conrad, MD, and William C. Shiel Jr., MD. "Stem Cells Symptoms, Causes, Treatment - Why Is There Controversy Surrounding the Use of Stem Cells? - MedicineNet." MedicineNet. MedicineNet, 23 Jan. 2014. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. Watson, Stephanie, and Ph.D. Craig Freudenrich. "How Stem Cells Work." HowStuffWorks. HowStuffWorks.com, 11 Nov. 2004. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.