Does DNA research like the cure for cancer involve Stem Cell research?
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Yes you are right. Stem cell research has many useful ramifications.
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Hopefully, Stem Cell Research may be of help
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I am for it. Esp if it can help cure diseases that we can not prevent with any other alternative method. Why wouldnt anyone want to spend more time with the ones they love. I do understand that stem cells come from aborted fetuses. But if we can use the stem cells that are collected to better help everyone then we should do what we can with what we have. But lets not start creating abortions to just harvest stem cell. I am healthy.
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It is the wave of the future of human medicine. There are many web sites that support that concept. International Stem Cell Research - WEB site.
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Just enter those words in a search in your favourite search engine,..Google works great. Also you can try Wikipedia [type that in a Google search] the worlds' free online encyclopedia where you can find info on just about anything and if you want can post info on subjects not yet entered,..keep in mind that because of this feature some info there may be incorrect. I recently saw on the news [TV] that somewhere [forget where] they are going to see if stem cells injected into a humans' heart attack damaged heart may cause a healing of the damage. If this were to work it could be a major breakthrough that could lead to people living quite a bit longer than normal,..not quite eternal youth, but maybe 120-150 yrs lifespan. Stem cell research and use in treatments may also lead to cures for many things including cancer without using dangerous radiation anymore.   John
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stem cell research is good, per se, but it is unfortunate that sensationalism has turned the debate so that people think that it is some automatic holy grail that cures all diseases
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Researchers in Adelaide have found stem cells exist inside the teeth, in a discovery that could one day lead to teeth being regrown or repaired.\n\nResearchers say they have found a colony of stem cells existing in the core of a human tooth.\n\nStem cell biologist Stan Gronthos yesterday told a symposium on stem cell research that the goal is to store harvested dental stem cells in liquid nitrogen, ready for use to repair damaged or diseased teeth.\n\nBut he says there is a lot of work still to be done.\n\n"It's a complex organ and it's got many tissues associated with it so it's going to take a lot of study to actually try and form a living tooth in an animal," he said.\n\n"At the moment technology is at the stage where we can probably repair portions of the tooth."
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None of these are theories.  You are listing technologies, or areas of scientific inquiry in the case of stem cell research and genetic research.\n\nIf you mean to ask for a critique of each of these (e.g. how should the technologies be used, or how should these subjects be studied, if at all) I think it would be best to pose each question individually!  They are not really related in any way.
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Depends on which stem cell research you are talking about!
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Genetic engineering can help many disorders that result from genetic misorders and mutations.  The controversy surrounds the use of cloning to produce "identical organisms" where the clone's cells can be used to produce talor made tissue.  I do not believe cloning is necessary to get stem cells to carry out genetic engineering.  THere are sources in the body to retrieve stem cells.  The problem is obtaining cells that have not specialized.  The less specialized the easier to make the cell transform into a specific cell for tissue growth.  Also, all cells contian the same copy of DNA.  I think it is only a matter of time before engineeris can stimulate a cell into changing into another cell.  Other than that there is nothing really controversial about genetic engineering.
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Be cautious because there are companies (at least one I've read of) marketing stem cell therapies that have no scientific basis. There's no reason to think that what they are doing will work. This company has been charging something like ten thousand dollars for a treatment and moving from country to country as they have been shut down.\n\nI understand the need for treatments now, but it's sad for a company to take so much money from someone who is very sick by taking advantage of their illness.\n\nWhat has been offered is a transfusion with hematopoietic stem cells, which means blood stem cells. These are cells that have already "decided" to be blood cells, but still have the potential to become different kinds of blood cells, such as red blood cells, white blood cells.\n\nThere are two or three major, major problems with what this company has been offering. One is that they are saying the blood stem cells can cure non-blood related diseases, like diseases that have to do with nerves. The cells they inject have already decided to be blood cells. This is a problem.\n\nThe second problem is that, for the hematopoietic stem cells to graft, meaning to take hold and grow in a recipient, the patient would have to go through a bone marrow transplant, meaning severe treatment to kill their own bone marrow. Otherwise the immune system will kill off the donor stem cells.\n\nThe third problem is that, even if there were some stem cells in the blood that could become nerve or other tissue, if those are just injected, they run the risk of starting other cancers. This point is a little bit tricky, and that's because there is a lot of active research going on in this area. In the idea of using stem cells for therapy, they need to have some instructions (meaning molecular signals) before being injected, otherwise they form tumors. This is not ready for patients yet.\n\nThe other very serious risk is that anyone who signed up for such a treatment is putting their trust in a company that has been put out of business for doing bad science, in the case I'm thinking of. There's no way to know whether they have screened their donors for HIV and other blood borne infectious diseases.\n\nPeople are working very hard to try to come up with better treatments. I know it's not a good answer for anyone who is sick now. Research budgets are being cut at the federal level, and a lot of good labs are having to slow their work or shut down. If you want more progress faster, write your congress person and tell them you support more NIH funding. We're doing our best with your money.
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DNA is significant in that it provides a blue print to the make-up of every living organism.  Genetic diseases are essentially faulty bits of DNA.  If we can locate the segment of faulty DNA, then it is possible to cure genetic diseases through gene therapies.
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Allow me to address your questions in a different order than you have asked:\n\nFirst of all, there is a reason why it seems like they're saying stem cells might cure just about anything.  The reason is that it seems that way to scientists too!  Let's put it this way - given the right set of stimuli, we KNOW a stem cell can grow into any cell in your body.  We know this because that is what stem cells already do on their own.  The potential for medicine is staggering.\n\nImagine what repairing a car would be like if all you could use were whatever parts happened to be in the nearest junkyard.  You might be able to use duct tape to hold things together a little longer, or if you're lucky you'll have exactly the right part available, but otherwise mostly you're making do and hoping.  That's kind of where medicine is now with major problems.\n\nIf some of the promise of stem cells pan out, however, the potential exists that any time something goes wrong, doctors could produce a new part and replace the old one.  Like having a catalogue of custom car parts at your fingertips.  Lost your arm in a car accident?  Your pancreas stopped producing insulin and now you're diabetic?  You don't like that old, wrinkly skin you have and want something new?  NO PROBLEM.  (You can see, I hope, why that might make people excited)\n\nBut it's not easy.  There HAS been some success with stem cells of various types.  An experimentor in Asia caused some stem cells to grow into new capillary tissue in a patient, replacing something which medicine is otherwise completely incapable of fixing right now (those capillaries are just too small).  Some isolated tisue has also been grown from stem cells such as cartilage and heart tissue, demonstrating the possibility of growing just one organ for a graft.\n\nMajor diseases are still in the works, however... in large part because we still have a lot to learn!  One study just recently started injecting stem cells into the brains of terminally ill children - not intending to cure them, but just intending to learn how many they have to use, how and where they will implant, and what risks they pose to the patients.  As you can see, we're still kind of at the beginning of this whole thing, even though there has been some very promising work.\n\nAs to why the government has to pay for it... it actually is the case that the government pays for MOST scientific research that goes on.  Who else is going to pay in a capitalistic society?  Companies only want to fund things that are going to pay off directly for them; in this field they ARE competing with other countries and applicable results are probably still a ways off for things that would be massively profitable.  Private citizens don't usually have the resources to fund research much themselves, though Howard Hughes' vast monetary legacy would be one notable exception.\n\nThe bottom line, really, is that if researchers can't find money to do their work here, they will go someplace where they can.  That is why Missouri was trying to pass a law explicitly allowing such research - biotech companies in that state found that they were completely incapable of attracting scientists to work for them at any price that they could afford.  Some countries DO have different research structures:  in Japan the government can get all affected companies to pool resources and share the resulting technology, for example.  And perhaps for humanity as a whole it hardly matters whether Sweden, South Africa, or America makes all these discoveries... but it CERTAINLY matters for the economies of those specific countries!
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Yes, the donor marrow continues to produce cells with the donor's DNA, while the rest of the cells in the recipient contain the recipient's DNA. This happens for the rest of the recipient's life. The bone marrow contains stem cells that differentiate into blood cells and immune cells. Therefore the recipient will have cells that contain the DNA genome from either the donor or the recipient. However, only certain types of cells will have the donor DNA (blood and immune cells) and each cell will have only 1 type of DNA. The children of a bone marrow recipient will only get the recipient's DNA.
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I am for stem cell research because last year I was diagnosed with cancer and met some amazing toddlers with cancer.\nSo stem cells would help save there lives.
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as with all new scientific advances there'll be some resistance to it until it proves itself to the community\n\nfor stem cell research: life vs. death (err, is the embryo where the cells are taken from alive or not) and the worry about future cloning of individuals from these harvested stem cells
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Stem cells are primal undifferentiated cells which retain the ability to differentiate into other cell types. This ability allows them to act as a repair system for the body, replenishing other cells as long as the host organism is alive.\n\nMedical researchers believe stem cell research has the potential to change the face of human disease by being used to repair specific tissues or to grow organs. Yet as government reports point out, "significant technical hurdles remain that will only be overcome through years of intensive research."\n\nThere are three types of stem cells: embryonic, adult and cord blood. Right to life and many religious groups have ethical problems with embryonic programs because it involves destroying surplus embryos from IVF programs.