What can this procedure do? Can it repair birth defects (e.g. missing nose)? Can it give you 20/10 vision?
2006-08-23 15:14:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Stem cells are basically undifferentiated cells that can produce cells of many different tissue types (in the case of embryonic stem cells, essentially _any_ type of tissue). Research on stem cells would eventually lead scientists to the ability to (theoretically) replace any sick, damaged, or otherwise defective tissue they wanted, or replace functional tissue with similar tissue of improved function. So yes, stem cell research could lead to procedures that would repair birth defects or enhance vision, as well as many, many other things.
Incidentally, stem cell research is not the same thing as cloning, and does not involve creating complete human beings in a laboratory setting.
2006-08-23 15:56:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do research for my university.
feel free to mail me on specific and concrete questions.
your question can be solved on a search engine.
2006-08-24 00:12:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is forbidden in some country, basically it can grow a full human being by that, but not supperior than the master copy..... by gene
2006-08-23 22:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by Henry W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please see the webpages for more details on Stem cell research.
2006-08-24 01:03:36 · answer #4 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above and more.
2006-08-23 22:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by anonymous 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋