Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem cells were first discovered in the 1800’s as the building blocks of life. In 1998 researchers extracted the first human embryonic stem cell that could sustain life in a laboratory. Since that time, it has become a controversial issue due to a particular way some stem cells come about, more specifically, embryonic stem cells. While adult stem cells are used more due to their lack of controversy, embryonic stem cells remain substantially more useful. Many question the use of embryonic stem cells because they connect it back to the obliteration of fetuses, in order to retrieve embryonic stem cells, they must be taken during the blastocyst stage when the embryo is a mere five days old. Nevertheless, the use of embryonic stem cells should be encouraged more in today’s society, due to all the potential they hold, as well as all the benefits that can be reaped from them.
First and foremost, I believe my claim is correct because, it is a fact that embryonic stem cells, or ESC, can regenerate into almost any cell, while …show more content…
We’ve gone from the hypothesis that stem cells could heal diseases, to gaining evidence that they do. As stated previously the first successful use of ESC occurred in 1998, since then as supported by Ian Murnaghan scientific writer, “Stem cell research has now progressed dramatically and there are countless research studies published each year in scientific journals” (Murnaghan). ESC being the cause of a controversy have quite a bit of attention on them, both good and bad. While some are questioning how morally right it can be to use cells from embryos in the blastocyst stage, others are taking full advantage of the phenomenon that could heal the body just by inserting undecided cells. If research would continue development at that speed, then there’s no telling how far advanced it would be in the next
Stem cells were first discovered in the 1800’s as the building blocks of life. In 1998 researchers extracted the first human embryonic stem cell that could sustain life in a laboratory. Since that time, it has become a controversial issue due to a particular way some stem cells come about, more specifically, embryonic stem cells. While adult stem cells are used more due to their lack of controversy, embryonic stem cells remain substantially more useful. Many question the use of embryonic stem cells because they connect it back to the obliteration of fetuses, in order to retrieve embryonic stem cells, they must be taken during the blastocyst stage when the embryo is a mere five days old. Nevertheless, the use of embryonic stem cells should be encouraged more in today’s society, due to all the potential they hold, as well as all the benefits that can be reaped from them.
First and foremost, I believe my claim is correct because, it is a fact that embryonic stem cells, or ESC, can regenerate into almost any cell, while …show more content…
We’ve gone from the hypothesis that stem cells could heal diseases, to gaining evidence that they do. As stated previously the first successful use of ESC occurred in 1998, since then as supported by Ian Murnaghan scientific writer, “Stem cell research has now progressed dramatically and there are countless research studies published each year in scientific journals” (Murnaghan). ESC being the cause of a controversy have quite a bit of attention on them, both good and bad. While some are questioning how morally right it can be to use cells from embryos in the blastocyst stage, others are taking full advantage of the phenomenon that could heal the body just by inserting undecided cells. If research would continue development at that speed, then there’s no telling how far advanced it would be in the next