Stem Cell Research

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Stem Cell Research

• Created By Jake Tracy

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About Stem Cells

• Different types of stem cells
• Can replace other cells throughout the body that
  have been injured or damaged

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Why Not Stem Cells?

• Lack of money
• Ethical problems
• Destroys an embryo
• Can lead to other scientific problems
• Against some religions

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Why Funding?

• To find cures faster
• Save millions of people who are suffering
  everyday from deadly diseases
• To know why lies ahead
• Know more about how the human body works

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Ethical Problems?

• Embryos are destroyed everyday in fertility
  clinics
• Fetus are killed everyday in abortion
• Why cant some embryos be donated if they will
  be destroyed anyway?

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Scientific Problems?

• Leads to more advanced research that will help us
  figure more questions
• Increase our knowledge and opportunities
• Over the past years, slowly but surely, more and
  more people are starting to approve of stem cell
  research as you can see from the bar graph.

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Questions to think about

• If we think that this research can bring cures to
  many diseases then why are we limiting the
  research that is done and the funding that is
  given?
• Why are we not trying to improve our technology
  and bring bigger and better opportunities?
• Is an embryo really a life?

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Works Cited

• Cherlow, Joel. E-mail interview. 30 Oct. 2006.
• Bush, George W. President Discusses Stem Cell
  Research. Aug. 2001 http//www.whitehouse.gov/news
  /releases/2001/08/20010809-2.html.
• Wikipedia. Stem Cell. 15 Nov. 2006, 16 Nov. 2006
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_research
• Stix, Gary. The Promise of the Mother Cell.
  Scientific American 295 (2006) 54-55