Potential Life Savers

Just about everyone in the world today knows either a loved one or a friend that is dying of a fatal disease or a terminal illness. Every day people are dying of incurable diseases due to the lack of knowledge or the lack of treatment for their disease. Imagine if there was a cure or an answer to save your loved ones or friends life, wouldn’t you want to give them a second chance at living life? In the recent scientific world there has been research done on stem cells. Stem cells are specially grown cells in order to help diseased patients grow better tissue in hopes of their survival and recovery. These cells can be derived though many different procedures. Extracting stem cells from a fetal embryo has proved to be the easiest and most efficient way of researching the ability of stem cells. The problem with this technique is that stem cells, derived from a human fetal embryo, destroys it from the lack of cells for the growing fetus. Although there are other resources for obtaining these stem cells through bone marrow and blood from adults it is hard to research these new techniques under the bans that President Bush has put upon the study. Thus the controversial issue stems, which is better, extending our knowledge of certain human processes and diseases or saving the fetal embryos from being damaged without repair.

In an article, “The Ethics of Stem Cell Research, ” A stem cell can be described as, “Undifferentiated, primitive cells with the ability both to multiply and to differentiate into specific kinds of cells.” Meaning that researchers can procreate specialized cells of tissues thus giving a patient a chance to regenerate a fully functioning organ in place of a failing one without the cost, time, and struggle of a transplant. Research shows that,

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“Stem cells obtained from 5-day old human embryos can morph into all kinds of human tissues and appear capable of regenerating ailing organs. But while newer and safer versions of the cells have recently been created, the policy imposed by Bush in A...

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...body who’s looking. I know I never did. I’d just ask people to sign up, not just for my sake, but [also] for anybody’s sake. There are a lot of people out there who need the help.” By entering an extra vile of blood into the National Marrow Donor

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Registry many people could be a possible match and savior for a patient enduring the pain of cancer.

Science is usually perceived as either a good or bad thing. Even in history scientists were usually laughed at when making a new discoveries and were not taken seriously until after their time. Stem cells research currently is still mostly theoretical but has the potential for making huge discoveries. It has the potential for uncovering mass amounts of knowledge about how to cure cancers and terminal illnesses. With all the safe and ethical procedures they have been using there should be no reason for blunting the research of stem cells.