Embryonic stem cells provide very plausible future treatments and other medical advancements but have some ethical controversies. ... At this point in time, embryonic stem cell research, in spite of the ethical disagreements, seems to have more benefits than the new and growing adult stem cell research. ... Stem cell researchers find this a very good source for embryos as all ethical problems can be eliminated because the leftover embryos would end up being destroyed anyways. ... Weighing up the potential benefits of stem cell research against the ethical dilemmas, the advances seem to outweig...

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Therapeutic cloning and stem cell research should be legal because the medical benefits outweigh any ethical, moral, or religious issues. ... The major ethical issue that the general public has against cloning and stem cell research is that it requires the destruction of a human embryo which, under the proper conditions, could develop into a human being. ... Scientist have found ways around this moral dilemma. ... The moral and ethical issues can be bypassed by using sources that have no chance for survival. ...

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Stem Cell Research: A Look at the Ethical Debate of Federal Funding Stem cell research has been becoming a larger national issue of public concern in the last few years. ... There has been considerable discussion and analysis about the moral and ethical issues toward the use of stem cells in biotechnology. ... Federal and states governments have been trying to determine how to handle this dilemma for years. ... However, during the Reagan administration, the Ethical Advisory Board lapsed and the funding quit. ... This, however, does not provide any ethical or medical regulations to ...

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The desires of researchers to utilize embryonic stem cells in their research has opened an ethical debate about whether harvesting stem cells from frozen embryos is tantamount to murder or abortion since the eggs were first fertilized with the intention of implanting them and letting them mature into infants. ... (Rosenberg) The main moral dilemma of cloning lies in deciding when these embryos are considered human children, if at all. ... (NEJM) What then are the ethical considerations of using frozen embryonic stem cells for research? ...

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But due to extension research I found out that stem cells can provide us with a myriad of possibilities in medical technology, but not without bringing with it serious moral and ethical dilemmas. ... Eventually, the more easily accessible and less controversial adult stem cells will be the only cells tested and used for clinical applications, but this may not occur for many years considering the moral and ethical battles that will ensue. ...

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It also presents us with some grave economical, moral and religious dilemmas, and therefore the research into this procedure is not currently being conducted to its fullest potential until these issues are resolved. ...

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My grandfather was a great man, but I had to watch the spark in his eyes die, as his mind crumbled and he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, Nathan Jay Friedman lived a healthy life, swimming nearly every day, taking vitamin supplements, washing his hands to the verge of obsession "yet di...

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Four years ago, my Uncle Creighton was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called multiple myeloma, which is a cancer affecting plasma cells. With no available treatment for his unfamiliar disease in Chicago, Creighton moved to Houston to undergo an experimental stem-cell procedure that saved his life. The cancerous Plasma cells, which are a kind of white blood cells that produce antibodies, accumulate in the bone marrow and disturb production of red blood cells, casing a number of problems.i Like most cancer treatments, his procedure was painfully slow. Since the cancerous plasma cells accumu...

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