Stem Cells 101: The Controversy and Debate

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  1. An excellent post that I'm stumbling.

    Keep up the good work!
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  2. Stem cell treatment , research and technology is permanent fixture in 21st century medical research. Continued efforts to research and develop embryonic stem cell treatments and procedures doesn't merely mean cloning human beings or involve moral and ethical controversies or issues surrounding such research. Embryonic stem cells provide the basic building blocks and structure of the development of various cellular and tissue structure in the human body, and stem cell research irrefutably offers potential treatments that may eventually cure many disease processes, enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again, and guide researchers to develop medications that will end to cognitive impairment diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease.
    Millions of cells found in the human body can and are being developed for future medical treatments. Stem cells contain specific instructions on how cellular structures replicate and function. Each cell is also programmed with how long it will live, it's specific functions and tasks.
    Stem cells come from different sources. The most commonly studied, and used, stem cell therapies involve:
    • Embryonic stem cell therapy
    • Adult stem cell therapy and research
    • Umbilical cord stem cell therapy
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    Professor Alexander Smikodub, M.D., PhD, is the founder of the Cell Therapy Clinic of the National Medical University and EmCell Clinic, as well as the inventor of treatment methods using embryonic stem cells in . The EmCell therapy clinic has been offering embryonic stem cell treatment in vivo to improve physical health for nearly two decades and has helped thousands of people suffering from disease processes like Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, various types of muscular dystrophy, blood diseases and cancers.
    Dr. Smikodub has performed thousands of embryonic stem cell transplants to international patients who arrived every month from foreign destinations such as China, Germany, and the United States (where stem cell therapy treatments have not been approved) to receive treatments that improve quality of life.
    International Clinical Experience
    The EmCell Therapy Clinic is one of the world's largest fetal or embryonic stem cell transplantation centers that addresses various conditions and disease processes. Embryonic stem cell research and development continues to offer curative effects, which is one of the most promising aspects of cell research and therapies. The am so clinic focuses their attention on embryonic stem cell transplantation related transplantation of the basic building blocks of all tissues and organs, not the tissues or organs themselves, that are responsible for various functions in the body and provide the basic structures for musculature, blood, immune system, nervous and other body systems.
    Stem cell therapies, and most potentially the potential of utilizing embryonic stem cells offer a multitude of benefits including but not limited to enabling cells to migrate directly to the site of injury or damage for repair or replication, establishing intercellular linkage and differentiation (developing into specific cellular structures such as muscle tissue, heart tissue, or neural tissues), In addition, benefits include enhancing immune responses and reducing and avoiding tissue and organ rejection.
    EmCell, based in Kiev, Ukraine, was founded in 1994, a private clinic that has gained international recognition and reputation in the field of embryonic stem cell research and clinical applications. Focusing on effective prevention and antiaging programs, and devising and developing treatments and follow-up for complex clinical cases, the EmCell clinic focuses on indications as well as contraindications for severe acquired and genetic disease processes that are caused by decreased cell counts.
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  3. Samantha ChaikinSep 22, 2009 12:09 PM
    I really enjoyed this post. I appreciate the background that you presented at the beginning along with the history of the political aspects of the stem cell debate. The way you presented both sides of the argument is commendable. I especially found your thoughts on the "gray areas" in the debate interesting. You presented topics that I have never really thought of such as having women become pregnant just to sell their embryos. Later you talk about how it may not be an ethical debate as much as a societal issue once stem cell research is widely used and accepted. I think this is a really interesting point.

    The possibility of stem cell research is enormous and promising. I think your solution of beginning research "solely on adult stem cells, and then determine the need to introduce embryonic stem cells into research later after further study" is very appealing and perhaps should be the direction researchers take. The downfall of this however, seems to be the fact that people may not think the implications of adult stem cell research is great enough to later go to embryonic cells. The reality is, adult stem cells cannot differentiate into all types of tissue, and therefore the future of stem cell research in general needs to be in embryonic stem cells. I agree with you that steps need to be taken for people to realize this and jump on board. I question how to show those against it that this is the reality and the future survival of many depends on it. This issue of embryonic stem cell research seems to become almost a religious issue similar to abortion. As a research scientist and future doctor, it frustrates me to think that the opinion of some can restrict the potential of something that could be so incredibly groundbreaking.
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  4. Great information Stem Cells are the way to go, they are the future of our wellness. Wouldn’t it be nice just to take two capsules that would trigger the increase the number of your own adult stem cells in your blood stream to aid the body??? How about 3.5 million!!! Read on visit some of my sites to learn how. We have all the science to prove it take my tour of both sites a wealth of knowledge in the hands of the right person. Published Peer Review Studies, I can send to you when you are ready.

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  6. Stem cell research has been continuing for decades, however, stem cell therapies are still somewhat new, and have focused on treatments utilizing embryonic stem cell research. These days however, scientists and researchers have discovered feasible and hopeful uses for other kinds of stem cells, including:
    • Adult stem cells
    • Umbilical cord stem cells
    • Placenta stem cells
    The area of placenta stem cell research and development is comparatively strange to consumers, since more concentration has been placed on adult stem cell and umbilical cord stem cell research in recent years.

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