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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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Therapeutic Cloning Reproductive Cloning
942 wordsIn his 1930 s futuristic novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley predicted a society where the human race was created in a laboratory and carried to term in incubators. At the time it was regarded as being ludicrously impossible. The idea of cloning in the eighties required multiple reproductions of specialized cells. Even then, the possibility of cloning was unachievable. Recently, scientists cloned a lamb, simply by replicating the cell in the skin tissue. It is now happening in all parts of the...
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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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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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Pursuit Of Knowledge Parkinsons Disease
1,204 wordsTopic: How do beliefs about the World, and beliefs about what is valuable, influence the pursuit of knowledge? The pursuit of scientific knowledge has often been believed to be an exploration in which information is gathered solely from experimentation, but people are slow to realize that experimentation is only one way, among a variety of ways, in which scientists gather information. In their pursuit of new scientific knowledge, scientists may conduct surveys, or build on pre-existing informati...
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Pain And Suffering Infertile Couples
796 wordsA woman, at the rightful age of 24, has decided to have a hysterectomy. She lives alone by herself, has no kids or a boyfriend. One year after she has the surgery, which strips her of the ability to have children, she meets the perfect man for her and they get married. Now since she had the surgery she is unable to have children with her husband. Human cloning can give that ability back to her! Along with relieving infertility, human cloning will hold the potential for immortality, and be able t...
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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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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 Cells The Miracle Cure
1,092 wordsIn order to develop an opinion on whether or not stem cells should be used, one first must understand what they are and how they are used. Simply stated, the definition of a stem cell is an undifferentiated cell, meaning that it has no true function yet. However, all of the genes within a human stem cell have the potential to become other types of cells. The triggering mechanism for this is for the stem cells to be placed among specialized cells. Specialized cells include skin cells, muscle cell...
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Stem Cell Immune System
393 wordsGeneric Heart Engineering To engineer a heart, the pathways to its formation through stem cells must first be discovered through one genome line that is as healthy as possible (i. e. no signs of an genetic disorders, especially related to oncogenes, no family history of heart problems). Then a process could be made to grow a heart in vitro through the use of the right cell signaling, transcription factors and hormones. After this process is perfected, the genome could be screened again for any d...
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Stem Cell Human Beings
338 wordsMichael Ruses book on The Stem Cell Controversy reveals the glaring choices between the two perspectives: To put things in context, it can take six or more embryos to produce enough cells to treat a Parkinsons sufferer successfully. Six embryos that have been produced artificially in order to harvest their cells, or six embryos that have been conceived naturally and then aborted, whether or not the abortion was done with the deliberate end of harvesting stem cells. But is it right to treat human...
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A History Of The 2004 Presidential Campaign
1,507 wordsA History of the 2004 Presidential Campaign The election of 2002 can be characterized as very peculiar because according to Podesta a closely divided American electorate moved only a few steps, but with seismic consequences to how the country is governed. As a chronological as well as logical continuation the 2004 Presidential Election will be very similar to the outcomes the election of 2002. According to many analysts the 2000 election was a status quo election since the Senate became 51 - 49,...
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Ban Human Cloning Kind Of Thing
1,872 wordsClowns or Clones Cloning is a word heard of only recently within the last 2 or 3 years. Cloning is said to have proved useful in perfecting genetics among animals as well as humans. While human cloning is still a little ways off, animal cloning has already begun. Dolly the sheep was the first to be cloned and then it went on to pigs. Perhaps as we go down this line, we may someday work our way to cloning humans. Human cloning would only be a real benefit to our health and could only lead to a pr...
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Cystic Fibrosis Genetically Engineered
1,384 wordsWhat are Lord Rama What are the principle, ethical issues and experimental procedures used in genetic engineering and cloning? Should Cloning be allowed to continue? In the 1970? s, scientists discovered that strands of DNA could be cut using special enzymes, which could cut out genetic combinations. DNA contains information about genes particular organisms hold. Duplicates of genes are also possible through genetic engineering and are very useful for medical purposes. Advances in technology hav...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle Cell Disease
879 wordsThe problem is that sickle cell anemia affects about 72, 000 Americans in the United States. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which the body is unable to produce normal hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein. Abnormal hemoglobin can morph cells that can become lodged in narrow blood vessels, blocking oxygen from reaching organs and tissues. The effects of sickle cell anemia are bouts of extreme pain, infectious, fever, jaundice, stroke, slow growth, organ, and failure. Sickle cell a...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle Cell Disease
868 wordsThe problem is that sickle cell anemia affects about 72, 000 Americans in the United States. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which the body is unable to produce normal hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein. Abnormal hemoglobin can morph cells that can become lodged in narrow blood vessels, blocking oxygen from reaching organs and tissues. The effects of sickle cell anemia are bouts of extreme pain, infectious, fever, jaundice, stroke, slow growth, organ, and failure. Sickle cell a...
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