LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Stem cell therapy is a novel therapeutic approach that utilizes the unique properties of stem cells, including self-renewal and differentiation, to regenerate damaged cells and tissues in the human body or replace these cells with new, healthy and fully functional cells by delivering exogenous cells into a patient.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pros. Embryonic stem cells are thought by most scientists and researchers to hold potential cures for spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, hundreds of rare immune system and genetic disorders and much more.

Detailed explanation-3: -Specialized types of stem cells have the ability to stop immune responses. Stem cells may therefore be very useful as a therapy for diseases in which organs are damaged or where the immune system is too active.

Detailed explanation-4: -Current ethical controversies regarding stem cell-based therapy are focused on the unlimited differentiation potential of iPSCs which can be used in human cloning, as a risk for generation of human embryos and human-animal chimeras.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stem cell technologies would be very expensive and available only to rich countries and to rich people. Stem cell research would deviate efforts from other health strategies. Interference with the genome involves ‘playing God’ Somatic cell nuclear transfer is immoral as it involves creating embryos only to destroy them. More items