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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Stem cell research debates have echoed from class to class, and to hear that someone actually has a solution to this paradox, which can really compromise two very stubborn points of views, I could not but write my report about what I thought of a very “enlightening” article: 1. Objective analysis. Maureen L Condic’s “Getting stem cells rights” serves to emphasize the ethical part of stem cells research as it tries to ground the whole debate and market a new prospect of an embryonic stem cell called the induced pluripotent stem cells. The author clearly supports the latter and wishes to completely focus all research on it and forget about the “unethical” embryonic stem cell research. She took to pen to 1) present this new prospect 2) rebuttal the response of present embryonic stem cell researchers, and 3) completely support the new IPSC research as a call for action to end embryonic stem cell research. 1) Author presents and informs about IPSC in : -”A true, no-cost resolution of a conflict, where the interests of all parties are served without compromise.” - Ongoing research that has shown “ordinary human skins” can be changed into stem cells by a process called direct reprogramming equal to embryonic stem cells. -Production of IPSC is very simple. -No destruction of embryos taking place -Ethically and scientifically “uncompromised” -Research though still in its infancy -Simpler and cheaper to produce than embryonic stem cells. -eligible for federal funding 2) Author rebuttals what she corralled from different sources from which scientists... ... middle of paper ... ...ured. – Claimed the same university of Utah in their website. So if that is the case then why support one research over the other. Moreover, iPS cells can also develop into a human embryo. This is also considered to be unethical by many supervisors. Report on Article by Maureen L. Condic – First Things - February 08 “Getting Stem Cells Right” References: University of Utah http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/scissues/ Reports of Danwei Huangfu, René Maehr, Wenjun Guo, Astrid Eijkelenboom, Melinda Snitow, Alice E Chen & Douglas A Melto. http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n7/full/nbt1418.html Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell US national Library of Medicine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010384/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19672241
The editorial, ?Stem Cells and the Logic of the Nazis,? appeared in the September 3, 2000 issue of the Los Angeles Times. Even though the Los Angeles Times, a widely distributed newspaper, has a slightly liberal slant, this editorial displays a strongly conservative view on stem cell research. Thus, the author of the editorial has to be very cautious in the tone that he uses in order not to offend liberal readers. George Weigel, the author of this editorial, picks apart what he sees as the fallacious argument of Michael Kinsley, a well-known libe...
The cells unique nature has scientists intrigued to do research with the focus of finding a way that these cells can be used to replace patients’ injured or diseased tissues. Advancement is made to all the three types of stem cells namely embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells in addition to induced pluripotent cells. Embryonic cells are the building blocks of an embryo that is developing, and can develop into almost all body cell types. Somatic cells are found in the body tissues. They renew and regenerate in healthy bodies. The third type which is induced pluripotent is genetically modified embryo cells from skin cells.2 Research on these cells are geared towards saving humanity; a noble course.
The Nobel laureates' inaccurate letter to President Bush urging him to feed federal funds to human-embryo stem-cell research has had PR value in the media. It perpetuates a number of misconceptions and misleading statements regarding stem-cell research, particularly embryonic as opposed to adult stem-cell research, and will serve to continue to cloud the issue. Some of these deceptive statements are the subject of this essay.
Late one night a woman is driving home on the freeway, she’s hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. The man is charged with two accounts of murder; the woman, and her four-week-old embryo inside her. By law, everyone human being is guaranteed rights of life; born or unborn they are equal. The same law should be enforced concerning human embryonic stem cell research. Dr. James A. Thomson discovered stem cells in 1998 and they’ve intrigued scientist ever since. The stem cells themselves are derived from a three to four day old cluster of cells called a blastocyst and they are so coveted because they are pluripotent, meaning they can differentiate into any type of cell in the human body. Although embryonic stem cells show amazing potential to cure various disease such as cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, muscular dystrophies, and more. The methods by which they are obtained is controversial. Research on embryonic stem cells is unethical, unnecessary, and purely homicide.
Reaves, J. (2001, July 11). The great debate over stem cell research. Time, Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,167245,00.html
This report does a fairly comprehensive job on educating the public to the definition of stem cells, describing them as “a diverse group of remarkable multipotent cells that are relatively undifferentiated and unspecialized cells of the body.” Stem cells have the capacity for unlimited self-renewal and the possibility to produce differentiated descendant cell types. The main in...
Wechsler, Henry, PhD, Jae Eun Lee, DrPH, Toben F. Nelson, MS, and Meichun Kuo, ScD.
Harvard University political philosopher and professor Michael J. Sandel highlights the ethical arguments concerning embryonic stem cell research in his article “Embryo Ethics – The Moral Logic of Stem-Cell Research”. He mainly addresses the argument that some individuals hold that “despite its worthy ends, stem cell research is wrong because it involves the destruction of human embryos.” Although Sandel sta...
Monroe, Kristen, et al., eds. Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical and Political Issues. Los Angeles/Berkley: University of California Press, 2008. Print
“What are the potential uses of human stem cells and the obstacles that must be overcome before these potential uses will be realized?” . InStem Cell Information. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009.
Stem cell research has been a heated and highly controversial debate for over a decade, which explains why there have been so many articles on the issue. Like all debates, the issue is based on two different arguments: the scientific evolution and the political war against that evolution. The debate proves itself to be so controversial that is both supported and opposed by many different people, organizations, and religions. There are many “emotional images [that] have been wielded” in an attempt to persuade one side to convert to the other (Hirsen). The stem cell research debate, accompanied by different rhetoric used to argue dissimilar points, comes to life in two articles and a speech: “Should Human Cloning Be Allowed? Yes, Don’t Impede Medical Progress” by Virginia Postrel; “Should Human Cloning Be Allowed? No, It’s a Moral Monstrosity” by Eric Cohen and William Kristol; and “Remarks by Ron Reagan, Jr., to the 2004 Democratic National Convention” by Ron Reagan, Jr. Ethos, pathos, and logos are the main categories differentiating the two arguments.
Segal, E. A., Cimino, A. N., Gerdes, K. E., Harmon, J. K., & Wagaman, M. (2013). A
Anderson, Ryan. "Stem Cells: A Political History." First Things. First Things, November, 2008. Web. 10 Feb 2012.
The stem cell research controversy is one of the major headlines in bioscience and has been discussed and debated numerous times throughout the last decade or so.
‘A dispute is a problem to be solved, together, rather than a combat to be won.’