Stem Cell Research Pros And Cons

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In today’s time about nearly as 70% of the American population are pro, for having the use of stem cell researched, compared to the 27% who believe it’s morally wrong. A high rise compared to a past poll conducted in 2004 with it being at about 60% who say it’s morally right. When people are asked of or brought to attention by stem cells, some my automatically think of “stem cell research”, and second to that they might as well be thinking “controversy”. Over the past few years the topic of stem cells has really been brought to world as a new study, but has come so far since the first day it was discovered. Stem cells not only has been categorized as a potentially revolutionary treatment, but as well as a sensitive, unethical issue for certain groups of people. It is important to …show more content…

It’s necessary for one to understand why stem cell research is being done and the potential outcome for continuing the research. For starters stem cells has many characteristics, being an unspecialized cell, meaning it has no sole function just yet, it is able to divide and renew themselves for long periods of time. This goes for all known stem cells such as: adult, umbilical, fetal, etc. Unlike muscle cells, blood cells, or nerve cells—which do not normally replicate themselves—stem cells may replicate many times, or proliferate (What are the unique properties of all stem cells?). It’s also possible for stem cells to become more than, it’s capable to do, because they are unspecialized cell they have the sole right divide as not only an identical copy of itself, but as well into tissue types: liver, lungs, brain, or skin. Having stem cells renew and duplicate each other give scientist an opportunity to study the process of how it’s done. Knowing that, they’d have a better understanding on how proliferating (expansion of cells) is done right or done wrong, if done wrong it can often leads to