The pros of embryonic stem cell therapy research include their infinite possibility of curing disease. These are the only totipotent stem cells and they are the most adaptable of the stem cell types. This cell has the potential to give create any and all human cells, such as brain, liver, blood or heart cells. It can even develop an entire functional organism. The first few cells in the divisions in embryonic development produce even more totipotent cells. Other stem cells are limited. Another pro to stem cell research using embryonic stem cells is that they have a much lower chance of the new cells of rejecting its new host, and they are the youngest stem cells available for use in treatment. Stem Cell Therapy offers a lot of medical benefits in the
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In the future stem cell research can allow the scientists to test a number of potential medicines and drugs without carrying out any test on animals and humans because we would already know the affects it has on people. The stem cell therapy also allows researchers to study the developmental stages of the body that cannot be known directly through the human embryo and it can be used in the treatment of a number of birth defects, infertility problems and miscarriages. A higher understanding of stem cell therapy will allow us to know how to treat the abnormal development in the human body.
The cons of stem cell therapy research mostly refer to issues with embryonic stem cell research; people who oppose stem cell research oppose the use of embryonic stem cells because there are still many questions of whether or not a human life is being lost when the embryonic stem cells are being extracted. To use these cells for research, the embryo must be destroyed and some people feel that this is an ethical issue. Another problem is that current embryonic stem cell lines used in research were not derived from an embryo that was conceived within the