Would it be good to allow use a a stem-cell collection technique to create useful medical technologies if there was no chance at all of harming a foetus? For example, creating stem-cell lines from adult cells (like a skin cell).
2006-08-30 19:15:47 · 8 answers · asked by larry n 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes in some cases of where u have to perform organ transplants and grafts -skin and organ, it may be very helpful. esp for cancer or patients also. or to treat children inutero for gentic problems. if it helps u then its ok, but if it for other unnecessary purposes then its a no.
but there are quite ethical issues too.
1st man should not play God.
2nd sometimes man takes to extreme of cloning. (esp humans) not good.
3rd, when u take a single cell and culture ir from an embryo, then it gives rise to a no;of cell lines. thus the authenticity and individuality of that embryo is lost.
4th would be, as u know most of these would usually be an auto transplant line so in that case they extract the parts of rudimentary liver in fetous inutero. in some cases it may damage the embryo totally.
5th, in most experiments of biotech and genetic engg, they use chick eggs and dont u think, that it is a little mean of us to kill another life to study something?
6th, adult cell lines proliferate very slowly and are at the end or half of their lives. the best most easily, less-faulty and rapidly proliferating stem cells are only obtained from an embryo. the adult stem cells are a little too complex to be cultured and maintained, but this has been used in grafting technique.
2006-08-30 19:39:57 · answer #1 · answered by marissa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, it would be impossible to use an adult skin cell as a stem cell. Stem cells are the cells that are present very early on at conception- these cells have not been "told" what to become yet (skin, muscle, etc.) and that is why they can be used for anything, and therefore, a medical miracle.
At present there is no way to get stem cells without harming a fetus. A few months ago I did see on Headline News that scientists had discovered certain cells in mice testes that behaved as stem cells, so that offered some hope in the direction of stem cell research. But, to answer your question, if no fetus was harmed then I would be all for stem cell research.
2006-08-31 02:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by < Roger That > 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are behind. A live embryonic stem cell collection was published a few days ago.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060826/ids_photos_ts/r1424050594.jpg
...A microscopic view of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells. A Massachusetts company said on Wednesday it had developed a way to make human embryonic stem cells without harming the original embryo, a finding it said could dispel ethical objections to promising medical research using such cells.
2006-08-31 02:24:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This really depends on what you mean by good, harming, and what the technology is for.
Is it "good" or not?
This question could be answered along the line of gun control in that:
It is "good" to use guns to defend ones' country / property, but "bad" for committing crimes and murders. Any scientific technologies could be abused and misused by not so good motivations.
Even current medical practices such as creation of drugs are very controversial under this light:
Sure a drug to cure disease and safe lives is "good", but what if a drug is addictive and abused for cheating insurance claims? Is that an overall "good" for a society to be involved in that practice? If it is not "good" then should we forget medications completely because it could be abused?
I don't believe rigid answers could be satisfactory to some people or the others. It is reality that determines the answer as most matter are not so clear cut in nature..
2006-08-31 02:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by : ) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one that I know of has any problem at all with adult stem cell research. You can gather these from umbilical chords or from the blood of any person already born.... Adult in this case only means already developed person.... not necessarily an adult.
The only successful research is through the use of adult stem cells.
Nobody is making any research illegal, the big uproar was over government funding of embryonic stem cell research. This upset me terribly because the news organizations referred to the issue as Stem cell research (general) as if all stem cell research was in jeopardy when in truth it has only been embryonic form and then only through government funding.
http://judgeright.blogspot.com
2006-08-31 02:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all I know this is a hypothetical question.
Now it would be great if that was the case, unfortunately the stem cells they need for research in is only found in fetuses. Yes all people have to, but they are extremely week and not much potential.
2006-08-31 02:22:06 · answer #6 · answered by darksphyx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What exactly is a FOETUS???
I have heard of FETUS but never FOETUS!
2006-08-31 02:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am all for it!
2006-08-31 02:21:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋