TASK A
1) Who is the first author of this article? What is the author’s intention? Is the information fact, opinion, or propaganda? Is the author’s point of view objective and impartial? Is the language free of emotion rousing words or bias?
The first author named on this article is Peter W. Marks, who is the director of the Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research. I believe that Mark’s intent in writing this article was to explore the positive and negative points involved in stem cell therapy, but for the most part focusing on the negative outcomes that can potentially and have already occurred. Whether this article is true fact, based on an opinion or simply just propaganda is not evidently obvious. I believe that a large portion of
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Stem cells are the foundation for every organ and tissue in the human body (Worldhealth, 2017). Stem cells are cells with the ability to differentiate into many different types of cells in the body. Stem cells come from two different sources, one being adult tissue and the other being embryos formed during embryonic development, these being embryonic stem cells.
Adult Stem cells
Adult (also known as somatic) stem cells are thought to be an undifferentiated (a cell that has not yet developed into another cell variation) cell. They found throughout the body after embryonic development has occurred, and these cells are found in tissues such as the brain, blood, blood vessels and marrow, the skin, skeletal muscles and the liver. The main roles of adult stem cells are to repair and maintain the tissue in which they are found.
Embryonic Stem Cells
Embryonic stem cells come from human embryo that is in the blastocyst phase, which is defined as an embryo that has developed for five to seven days after fertilization and has 2 distinct cell types and a central cavity filled with fluid (Sherbahn, 2016). They are able to develop into more than 200 cell types of the adult body when
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They have a sound understanding of just how much stem cell therapy has the potential to do, and are willing to make this sacrifice for the treatment of people who need it.
Religious individuals tend to completely disagree as the concept of terminating an embryo goes against all of their beliefs as it is seen to be ‘murder’ of a living being. The fact that cloning is a possibility from stem cell research also goes against their beliefs as it would cause someone else to be a god-like person.
The general public are mostly supportive of stem cell therapy as everyone tends to know someone who suffers from an illness that could be treated if further research was to be completed. They are not fully aware of the benefits or negative outcomes so they are rather neutral but more on the supportive