Embryonic Vs Adult Stem Cells

Imagine there was a “miracle” cure for diseases and other ailments; from Parkinson’s disease, to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”, to spinal cord injury, to cancer, to blindness and diabetes. Though it may sound like a dream come true, it is not something of myth. With a lot of support, funding, and research, stem cells have the potential to eliminate all of the prior and more. Stem cells are an example of the basic building blocks of life: virtually microscopic, unspecialized cells that can evolve to nearly any kind of cell, tissue, or organ. Stem cells can be extracted from a few different places, however, the most efficient and resourceful are ones embryonic in nature. That is, obtained from human embryos. Embryonic …show more content…
Brown University, ivy league research institution, addressed the advantages of embryonic stem cells vs. adult stem cells by purely claiming that embryonic stem cells cover “a wider variety of applications than do adult stem cells.” Embryonic stem cells can form into any given cell in the human body. There needs to be more research regarding embryonic stem cells but it is theorized that these cells would not be rejected the same way adult stem cells may be. Because embryonic cells are undifferentiated, it is much more likely the host will accept them compared to previously specialized adult stem cells. Rejection is a primary obstacle in stem cell research. With more research, embryonic stem cells can be much more stable and adaptive than adult stem cells. It would be absolutely traumatizing for a parent to have a child that suffered through some type of accident, became paralyzed because of a spinal cord energy, which in most cases has zero treatment options. Then to find out adult stem cells could be a possible answer to their wishes, just for the cells to not be adaptable to that specific injury or to be rejected by the child’s frail, resistant body. It is cases such as this and many, many, more that happen annually, that makes embryonic stem cell research predominantly vital – at times, a matter of life or …show more content…
Having an egg be fertilized but failing to attach to the uterus or develop happens more than realized. Also during this period, the central nervous system has yet to begin developing thus there are zero senses of any kind. Organs are volunteered to be taken from asserted brain dead patients for life saving transplants of others; it is legal, federally funded, and happens every day without a blink of an eye. Therefore, it should not be considered wrong to utilize stem cells of an embryo that is in its earliest stages, that does not have a central nervous system, in the same ways as organs that are used from