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Treating Disease With Stem Cells
1,019 wordsThis article was written by Dr. Gregory Hale, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in response to questions posed by Scientific American Magazine regarding the treatment of certain diseases with cord blood stem cells. There is some additional information provided by Viacord, a medical service company that provides private family cord blood banking, processing, and research. Dr. Hale discussed the advantages of cord blood stem cell transplants, the results of...
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Year Old Man Part Of The Brain
1,677 wordsCan you image a hunk of pinkish-gray tissue the size of your hand that is controlling your entire body? This organ in your body is called the brain. The brain is not the largest organ but is the most complex organ in your body. (Metos, 1990, p. 10) When you think of the brain do you think of the control center of movement, sleep, hunger, thirst, and virtually every other vital activity necessary to survive? Or do you think of the brain as the organ that controls emotions including, hate, love, f...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Adult Stem Cells
894 wordsStem cells look to be nothing more than a hollow sphere composed of a clump of tiny, roundish balls. In reality, they are much more than that. Those 40 cells contain all the potential to become a living, breathing human being. Many scientists believe that these cells also have the potential to cure a myriad of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, and many others. The cells of the four day old human embryo can be programmed to become virtually any cell in the bo...
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William Henry British Broadcasting
1,131 wordsBetween 1844 - 6, William Henry Fox Talbot used the title The Pencil of Nature for his set of published prints which featured images of botanical specimens, photogram's, still life and landscapes. Photography was very young at the time of the Pencil of Nature; this set being the first published photographically illustrated book. Talbot first investigated the usage of the camera obscura and camera lucida to aid his sketches by tracing the image projected onto the paper through the prism; it was h...
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Stem Cells Therapeutic Cloning
666 wordsIntroduction Politicians, philosophers, lawyers and scientists have been arguing about it for years, but most recent headlines have reignited the simmering debate about therapeutic cloning. Having sent ripples through the scientific and political communities, this issue presents at once radical advantages to medical evolution, and highly controversial moral issues. It seems that the new prospect - using cloned human embryos for medical therapy - will take some time before breaking political and ...
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The Promises Of Stem Cell Research
760 wordsFrom the monks practice of reincarnation to the Native American medicine man, civilization have searched for loop holes to cheat death and have gone to spontaneous measures to improve life. Modern day medicine has saved the life of thousands and given even more a healthier way of living. However, throughout the course of history, the practice of healing has taken a drastic change from a once religious threshold to a more scientific one. People hold more faith in a needle then they do in Allah, B...
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Stem Cell Research Period Of Time
1,158 wordsOne of the most popular clinical studies being researched these days is stem cell transplantation. Until recently, moral issues of states and countries haven't allowed research to expound deeply into the unknowns. Within the last ten years though, scientists have made leaps and bounds in finding out concrete facts that this stem cell research has supplied. Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health Services states, "I believe it will open up a world of opportunity for scientists, not only at the NIH...
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Adult Dna Cloning Human Cloning Technology
1,788 wordsThe possibility of human cloning was raised when Scottish scientists, led by Dr. Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute, created the much-celebrated sheep "Dolly." Being the first mammal ever cloned this aroused worldwide interest and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications. The feat, cited by Science Magazine as the breakthrough of 1997, also generated uncertainty over the meaning of "cloning" -- an umbrella term traditionally used by scientists to describe different processes fo...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Blood Sugar Levels
1,188 wordsIntroduction Type 1 Diabetes mellitus, formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is a disease that is defied as a metabolism disorder. It affects about 5 - 10 % of the diabetic population estimating to about 4. 9 people worldwide. In this type of diabetes, the onset of elevated blood sugar levels usually begin abruptly in a fairly dramatic way before the age of 30 and about half of all the cases appear during childhood. The cause of diabetes type 1 is an autoimmune destruction in whi...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Petri Dishes
1,229 words... 2 day as compared with uh ES. No significant difference in insulin concentration was observed when incubation's were carried out at 5. 5 -mmol / l medium glucose concentration (15816 gU/ml, gU/ml, n = 6) or at a 25 -mmol / l ambient medium glucose concentration (146. 2 bn 22. 1 gU/ml, n = 6). (Assay et. al. , 2001) Method 2: As a result of their ability to differentiate into many different cell types, one can dissect the complex network of transcription factor genes regulating tissue-specifi...
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Spinal Cord Stem Cells
581 wordsStem cell research looks to be one of the most promising treatments for spinal cord injuries. Stem cells are special because they are the primitive cells that give rise to different kinds of tissues in the body, and because they are self renewing in the body and in the laboratory so that large quantities can be produced for medical purposes (The Promise of Stem Cells, 2002). Another great quality of stem cells is that they have the potential to develop into many different cells in the body. When...
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Stem Cell Research Millions Of People
1,552 wordsConflict between Research and Ethics In United States, many governmental initiatives, regarding the development of science, are still affected by the considerations of public morality, which is based on obscure Christian dogma. One of the best examples of it is George W. Bush vetoing the bill, which would allow Federal financing for the stem cell research. The President believes that obtaining the genetic material for the research, from the dead embryos, is unethical. This is despite the fact th...
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The Controversy On Stem Cell
669 wordsTHE CONTROVERSY ON THE STEM CELL Stem cell research is one of the most controversial ideas in modern society. There are those who believe that it holds out the promise to cure or relieve some of humanity's most terrible diseases. On the other side, there are those who insist that stem cells can only be collected by killing embryos by murder. How does one reconcile this issue? Are embryos regarded as a measure of the symbolic value for the human species? That is the contention of those against th...
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Stem Cell Research Stem Cells
812 wordsQUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE: STEM CELL THEORY The debate is heated over the issue of embryonic stem cells used in medical research to find treatment for diseases such as Alzheimers disease, diabetes, and Parkinsons. This issue is so much like the continuation of the abortion issue debated by pro-life groups and pro-choice advocates. One of the most vocal in this issue is the religious sector, which believes that it is murder to experiment on human embryos and therefore such experiments should be consi...
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Stem Cell Research Adult Stem Cells
936 wordsHUMAN CLONING The American public has been a haven of open scientific inquiry and it has always been a factor in creating globally accepted innovations in biotechnology and medicine. As the country is beset by several debilitating diseases such as cancer, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease and diabetes, the medical community struggles to find a solution for these chronic and fatal diseases as each day goes by. Ironically, the potential solution in which they have stumbled upon is contested. ...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission Stem Cell Research
1,850 wordsStem Cell Therapy Recent progress in stem cell research heated the debates on the issue of the status and dignity of the human embryo. The advances of stem cell therapy prompted a decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund stem cell research which, according to the statement of Harold Varmus, depends on the destruction of human embryos. These advances of stem cell research and therapy and their support by institutions and gov...
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Life On Earth H 2 O
1,870 wordsPlants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even other plants. They have always been very important to people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter and a great many other purposes. Both humans and animals benefit from plants. We eat many different types of plants such as fruits and vegetables. We also use plants for our herbs. Plants are also used to manufacture many different products such as shampoos, rubber, paper, and camera f...
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Clone A Human Zona Pellucid
2,092 wordsThe idea that humans might someday be cloned has started sounding less like a science fiction novel and more like a genuine scientific possibility. On February 23, 1997, The Observer broke the news that Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist, and his college at the Roslin Institute were about to announce the successful cloning of a sheep by a new technique which had never been successfully used before in mammals. This technique involved transplanting the genetic material of an adult sheep, obtained fr...
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Showy Ladys Slipper Ladys Slipper Cypripedium Species
2,823 wordsThe Ladys Slipper: Cypripedium Plant Name The ladys Slipper, or Cypripedium, is an easily recognizable species from the Orchidaceae family. Plant Description The family is commonly known to have fantastic flowers, with flamboyant color and display. Members of this family are normally found to grow in bogs, meadowlands, and woodlands. The flowers all share some common characteristics, such as, possessing three sepals and petals, with markedly bilateral symmetry. The lowest petal, or lip, usually ...
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Life On Earth Carbon Dioxide
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