Stem Cell Research Pros And Cons

The goal of the medical field is to save as many lives as possible. New technology and innovative research have saved so many more lives than we ever thought possible. Twenty years ago much of the technology and procedures we once considered unethical or impossible, are saving thousands of lives every day. Stem cell therapy, organ regeneration, and organ growth are innovative procedures that can change medicine in order to save and improve lives. The state of Colorado needs to increase federally funding for clinics and universities to continue stem cell research on embryonic and somatic cell therapy, organ regeneration, and organ growth in order to improve hundreds of lives throughout the state. Additional federal funding will assists researchers

Stem cells and ES cells offer great promises but up until recently, nobody knew what they are capable of because they were not sure what they were. Stem cells are unspecialized cells capable of renewing themselves. In 1981 John D Gearhart, who has Ph.D. in genetics, derived pluripotent embryonic stem cells or ES cells. ES cells have three general properties. They are capable of dividing and renewing themselves, they are unspecialized cells and they can be modified into specialized cells (NIH Stem cell Info). Special factors allow them to remain unspecialized and there are several stages the cells have to go through to become specialized cells. But, according to the National Institute for Health, in 2006 scientists found how to "allow some specialized adult cells into Stem cell-like state" (source).The promise of Stem cell research allows the potential to prevent and treat birth defects, being able to "identify drug targets and test potential therapeutics" and study cell diffraction in order to perform "tissues/cell for transplantation" (NIH Stem cell Info). They also have the promise to cure diseases like Alzheimer's and

With such funding researchers know that they can proceed to help cure such diseases by taking pluperant cells (ES cells) and turning them into somatic cells and then transplanting the mature cells into the affected area. Those cells will take over for the affected cells, start regenerating and start the process of curing the affected area(s). In cases like diabetes, the mature cells would replace the cells that are not able to produce insulin and the new cells will be altered before transplantation to be able to properly produce insulin (The Power of Stem Cells). This promise of Stem cells shows the continuous need to fund new research in order to make these promises facts. In the state of Colorado, universities and clinics can continue to provide life-changing treatment to our community and change the mortality rate from potentially curable disease with new funding being