Stem Cells and Autism

There is still much we do not know about how autism develops, which makes it more challenging to find new treatments and ways of addressing the disorder. Recently, however, stem cells have shown promise in helping safely develop treatments for autism. What is Autism? Autism is a disorder that relates …

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Stem Cells and Fat Distribution

Being overweight carries a number of health risks, but where you carry that extra weight can increase the risk even further. One important area of research is to learn how and why some people are more likely to gain weight around their midsection – known as visceral fat. Stem cells …

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Stem Cells That Don’t Age

One of the difficulties with stem cells is that they have a limited lifespan within the laboratory setting. To keep using the stem cells in an effective way, researchers constantly have to obtain fresh stem cells from donors. Issues in Stem Cell Supplies This process is both time-consuming and costly, …

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Stem Cells and Same Sex Reproduction

Stem cells have generated such an enormous amount of interest, in part, because of their applications related to areas such as fertility and genetics. In that same light, their interest for solving reproductive challenges has also generated a great deal of controversy. This is particularly true in the application of …

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Political Changes in Stem Cell Funding

Unfortunately, politics have played a relatively large role in stem cells, which has left many people feeling powerless to influence the progress of this potential therapy. With politics comes funding – or lack thereof – and religious and other personal views tend to get into the mix as well. US …

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Stem Cells and Radiation Sickness

Stem cell technology has garnered a great deal of attention and has been prominent in the area of medicine while providing the promise of significant applications for disease. Although many of these applications are still in the developmental stage and have yet to become a reality in the medical field, …

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Creating Embryonic Stem Cells Without Embryo Destruction

One of the biggest hurdles in stem cell research involves the use of embryonic stem cells. While these stem cells have the greatest potential in terms of their ability to differentiate into many different kinds of cells in the human body, they also bring with them enormous ethical controversies. The …

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Religion and Adult Stem Cell Research

Stem cell research holds enormous potential for treating a broad spectrum of diseases but before that potential can even begin to be harnessed, there must be a clear pathway to obtaining the research needed to make stem cell therapies a reality. Since the advent of stem cell research, one barrier …

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Stem Cell and Cybrid Controversy

If you imagine the concept of something that is partly human and partly comprised of another animal, then you will now be familiar with one of the common misconceptions about cybrids and the subsequent controversy around their creation and use. Cybrids are the result of experiments that involve the fusion …

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Solving the Stem Cell and Cancer Dilemma

Stem cells have the potential to treat a vast number of debilitating diseases in Britain but conversely and surprisingly to many people, they also have the potential to trigger the growth of cancers. While we have known for some time that there is a link between stem cells and cancer …

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