Many people feel the use of stem cells has a great potential for scientific and medical progress, while others have been opposed to it. Today there is a great deal of debate about stem cell research using pluripotent stem cells from an embryo. Provide an argument for people in favor of continuing stem cell research. Include in your answer the uses of stem cell research and a suggestion for obtaining a source of stem cells without risk to life.

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Shawn Spence

26 March, 05:22

Many people feel the use of stem cells has a great potential for scientific and medical progress, while others have been opposed to it. Today there is a great deal of debate about stem cell research using pluripotent stem cells from an embryo. Provide an argument for people in favor of continuing stem cell research. Include in your answer the uses of stem cell research and a suggestion for obtaining a source of stem cells without risk to life.

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Laila Zuniga · Answer 1

Although we do know that stem cell research is very controversial, but one cannot deny the fact that by far it is most effective technique for treating those diseases whose cure is otherwise impossible.

Regenerative medicines and therapeutic cloning are very effective to control many dreadful diseases.

By studying stem cells, scientists can study how to treat an ailment whose cure was otherwise unknown. As diseases like cancer occur due to inappropriate divisions, study of stem cells enable scientists to learn the mechanism of differentiation and how it gives rise to cancer.

One of the methods through which stem cells can be obtained is the method of induced pluripotency. By this method, pluripotent stem cells can be made from adult stem cells.