Stem Cells
- Created by: Azzab123
- Created on: 10-05-14 20:16
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- STEM CELLS
- Embryonic Stem Cells
- Differentiation - when a cell changed to become specialised for its job
- STEM CELLS ARE UNDIFFERENTIATED
- Found in early human embryos and have the potential to turn into any kind of cell at all.
- Adults also have stem cells but they're found in the bone marrow and aren't as versatile
- Curing Diseases
- Medicine already uses adult stem cells to cure disease
- eg People with blood diseases can be treated by bone marrow transplants - bone marrow contains stem cells that can turn into new blood cells to replace faulty ones
- Extracting stem cells from very early human embryos are then used to replace faulty cells in sick people.
- To get cultures of one specific type of cell, reserchers try to control differentiation by chancing the environment it grows in.
- More research is needed
- Medicine already uses adult stem cells to cure disease
- For and Against embroys
- human embryos shouldn't be used for experiments since each one is a potential human life
- Curing patients who are already suffering is more important then the rights of the embryo
- Embryos used in research and often unwanted ones from fertility clinics - if they weren't used in research they would be destroyed
- In some countries using Stem Cells is banned.
- Embryonic Stem Cells
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