What SPECIFIC medical breakthroughs have come from stem cell research?

Question

Yeah I left the word embryonic which completely changes the question, sorry.

Answer 1

There have been treatments developed for both MS and Parkinson's disease. Oh but these were accomplished using adult stem cells which the government does fund.

Answer 2

You would do best to Google specific scientific results and read thru the research findings. It is a hot debate so it depends on how you feel about where they come from how you can relate. In simplest form these new birth cells will adapt and regenerate growth of weak and dead ones of the donor recipient. The umbilical cord was the best at first then the knowledge expanded. Trouble is where they come from. And if they can be cloned. Many are just discarded as waste. Some are used and beautiful children follow where once there were none to families desperate for a child. Bush is concerned in my opinion of the legalities and the broader spectrum of problems vs the solutions the stem cells offer. It is a no win battle right now.
Stem cells have increased recovery rates of terminally ill patients remarkably. I won't give any percentages. Sorry, not specific but I would not dare quote anything in this case unless I was a doctor. Just a CNA now adays. Thanks.

Answer 3

in 1996, embryonic stem cell research was successful in regenerating spinal cells. They attached embryonic stem cells to the severed ends of mice spinal chords, and the cells built a bridge across to the other side, reconnecting the ends, and the mice regained function in their back legs. This same year, the Right to Life movement fought in Oregon (where the research was conducted) to place a gag order on the research, until it could be determined whether or not abortions were used in these stem cell lines. It was found that abortions were NOT used, but the gag rule remains intact today. The research project was bankrupted fighting this frivlous case. I remember because that was the year my borther sustained his injury and became a quadriplegic. I read anything and everything i could on this matter. Of course, this was before Bush politicized it to pander to his religious base ( a base he alienated by his inability to outlaw abortion, and his inability to get a gay marriage amendment passed...two items he claimed were important when they voted for him. Also the reason why the GOP lost the last elections, and the reason they returned to pander to this very powerful lobby in the current races) so that is why people claim NOTHING has ever been accomplished with this research. Burying facts does not make them go away, it just makes it easier to 'debunk' them. Because of this and other research, the stem cell lines were maintained, and further cells grown in the petri dish from that line. That research has led to the current findings we have with cord blood...something we ewould NOT have known about without the embryonic research..that was done on discarded fetuses from a fertility clinic...a clinic not unlike the one used by the Bush's to create their twins...I wonder how many fetuses they threw out once they got the twins?

Answer 4

Embyronic stem cells can actually interact with one another and with the trophoblast to produce what we call the "lineage-restricted stem cells" - for instance, a mesodermal stem call can no longer form ectodermal cells types (epi or neural) or endodermal but rather mesodermal organs such as the heart, blood, immune cells, bone, muscles, dermis, kidney, etc, etc, etc. Totipotent cells have been proven at one point to differenitate progressively into red blood cells and those red blood cells are capable of cell division. In a 1999 experiment done by Brustle and McDonald, mouse ES cells were found to form lineage specific stem cells for new pancreatic cells, muscle cells, glial cells and neural cells :-) Neurons that were drived from the mouse ES cells have been shown to reduce the sympptoms of a Parkinson-like diesaese in mice ESR has alot of possibilities - it can regrow neurons from the mesodermal cells (thus helping people with Alzheimer or Parkinson) produce spinal cord cells, produce pancreatic cells for ppl w/ diabetes Jeeper_Peeper, Bush has done nothingto help alleviate the conditions that hit close to home (Parkinson's, mutliple sclerosis, Alzheimer's) by passing restrictive limitations on embyronic research such as federal funding. Contries such as Belgium, Italty,Portugal and even Iran are ahead of us in this research. Because private companies usually keep the details of their experimental methods due to some of guidelines from the Bush administration, it has been hard for scientists to pass information for peer review publications and federally funded research is more difficult since the information about the research is within the public realm. It seems kind of paradoxical that while the Bush idiots dislike the idea of destroying a embryo they are eager to achieve that hope for relief - President Bush, I'll remind you again, has vetoed any legislations that provides federal support for generating stem cell lines

Answer 5

Parkinson's and several other terrible diseases. Nancy Reagan ask Bush not to veto this bill because her husband President Regan if he had of been younger would have benefited from the Stem Cell Research. Bush don't care about anyone, you see how he does our troops just sent them to Iraq to be slaughtered put through a meat grinder. What does it hurt him about stem cell , I guarantee if someone in his family could be helped , he would signed that bill yesterday. Bush is a cold hearted man, he wouldn't turn around to help anyone that needs treatment, he is a very sick man , he needs to be put in the Insane Asylum.

Answer 6

All Breakthroughs have been suspended by the Bush Administration
( This applies to everything, not just stem cell research, ALL BREAKTHROUGHS)

Answer 7

The medications that are currently being used to treat people with Parkinson's Disease.

Cancer medications

Treatments for those with spinal cord and/or nerve injuries

Better understanding of brain function and understanding developmentally disabled individuals

Some aid in treating birth defects

These are all only the ones that come to my head right now. I know there are many more. And I also know that there is so much potential with this research being done.

Answer 8

That is why we need to continue research. Tell people who are sick and hoping for the miracle that we can't research stem cells and save their live because It is not ethical or not according to the religion expectations?!

Answer 9

None. Should be no government funding for it just private. The government funders just give it to their pals. They jusy say well something is around the corner need more money. Aspirin, smallpox vaccinnes, polio vaccine, were all done with private research and no government grants.

Answer 10

I do know that my wifes boss recieved stem cell treatment for bone cancer and has been cancer free for over 2 yrs