Adult canine stem cell research, breaking the silence between ethics and medical breakthroughs
It is indeed a dilemma where the line is drawn on adult canine stem cell research, as it aims to break the silence between ethics and medical breaktroughs.
Arguments and debates have been raised about the propriety and the need to focus on stem cell ethics, now that adult canine stem cells are already being introduced as a treatment procedure for some diseases and illnesses among dogs.
Regardless of the idea that stem cell research is primarily aimed at tapping into the potential benefits of adult canine stem cells on areas of health and medical treatment for dogs, a black cloud still looms over the eventual effects of the process ranging from birth defects to cancer.
The scientific community has recently been hounded by calls for protests and objections to continued research and experimentation, particularly with the embryonic stem cells, which are being isolated from days-old embryos of a variety of living organisms, be it human or animal.
Some of the stem cell lines, which have also raised some eyebrows, are those that have also been developed from animal tissue, apparently on the stage where the living organism is into its eighth week of development or even later.
Recent protests are lobbying for a holistic approach to advancements in science and technology, particularly on maintaining a balance between the technological aspects and being aware of ethical principles in the pursuit of medical breakthroughs.
Advocates in favor of applied stem cell ethics insist that this check and balance process needs to be set-up, in order to maintain certain standards on the limitations of these tests and researches.
Only recently these calls have been heeded by the scientific community after it proposed to impose a series of ethical guidelines that will govern stem cell research and experiments.
The proposed stem cell ethics system, albeit voluntary, will serve as an institutional policy that will apply to all stem cell researches and experiments, whether funded privately or publicly, since it is expected to be governed by federal and state regulations.
Although stem cell research breakthroughs have been showing good progress, but since the process requires deriving the stem cells from embryos and eventually destroying them, multi-sectoral groups have denounced the process.
Stem cell ethics is one way to ensure the public that stem cell research is being conducted in consideration of every possible ethical principle governing life.
Although the scientific community established the ethical guidelines to assuage the public’s fears of a blanket authority over such experiments and studies, political groups opposed to adult canine stem cell research charge that these guidelines is only meant to euphemize a ’seemingly unethical line of research.’
Stem cell research has been one of the most recently celebrated controversies today, which has called for the imposition of a stem cell ethics framework and should consider all possible ethical viewpoints since human life is involved, even while it was still an ‘insignificant’ organism inside the body.
Regardless of whether the research is for human or adult canine stem cell research, pro-life advocates maintain the in general, all living organisms have the right to life and exist.
Truth be told, that even with the difference between human or adult canine stem cell research, breaking the silence between ethics and medical breakthroughs will continue to be a controversy of choice.
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Rabu, 29 April 2009
A Look Into Adult Canine Stem Cell Research
A look into adult canine stem cell research, just like any other stem cell research, often raises controversy and draws the line between scientific breakthroughs and the raising of eyebrows among skeptics.
At the turn of the century, stem cell research, has become one of the most controversial and celebrated events in the history of the world.
From the research laboratories where tests and experimentations are conducted, down to the streets filled with protesters hoping to stop stem cell experiments or those pushing for ethical principles behind the experiments, stem cell research has by far been the most talked about topic in scientific history.
Although much has been said about many innovative breakthroughs in harnessing the power of stem cells, stem cell research still has a long way to go.
With breakthroughs achieved, allowing adult canine stem cells to be used in treatment of a variety of diseases among dogs, still further intensive studies are being conducted since many scientists believe that stem cell therapy holds the promise of radically changing the way canine diseases are being treated.
For example, adult canine stem cells are currently gaining widespread use for treatment and therapy, as well as not posing any medical danger to the patient, since findings have already been established about the regenerative and renewal properties of the adult canine stem cell without destructive or damaging side effects.
Adult canine stem cells, also called somatic stem cells, are found throughout the dog’s body and has been linked to the healing properties of living organisms like for example, the ability of the skin to regenerate after it has been injured or the ability of regenerating human tissues due to wear and tear.
Theoretically, with findings on recent stem cell research, scientists believe that it may lead the way to addressing better treatment and therapy of certain types of muscle damage, even cancer, as well as with varied forms of tissue or organ impairments and other medical conditions – both treatable and what may have been thought of as untreatable.
Regardless of the benefits of stem cell research and its medical breakthroughs, however, controversies are still rife since the process of obtaining a canine embryonic stem cell for experimentation.
Deriving an active embryonic stem cell line through therapeutic cloning would require destroying a canine embryo, since many oppositionists to stem cell research argue that this is a similar process to reproductive cloning and is no less an ethical question why the need to subject the life of a living organism to become an instrument of science.
Proponents, however, insist that the pursuit of medical breakthroughs and scientific experiments on the embryonic stem cell is only limited to embryonic samples that are already subject for destruction resulting from in vitro fertilization.
This argument, however, is also being countered by pro-life movers who insist that despite of the process, an embryo is still a living organism, thus has the right to life regardless of the fact that it is already subject for destruction.
The never-ending battle between good and evil is seemingly manifested in stem cell research, since it has created a contrasting atmosphere of animosity and excitement over findings resulting from these researches from various sectors, and will continue to face social and ethical challenges for all sectors concerned.
All the same, a look into adult canine stem cell research – regardless of the challenges it faces- will continue to provide answers and pave the way for more breakthroughs ahead.
At the turn of the century, stem cell research, has become one of the most controversial and celebrated events in the history of the world.
From the research laboratories where tests and experimentations are conducted, down to the streets filled with protesters hoping to stop stem cell experiments or those pushing for ethical principles behind the experiments, stem cell research has by far been the most talked about topic in scientific history.
Although much has been said about many innovative breakthroughs in harnessing the power of stem cells, stem cell research still has a long way to go.
With breakthroughs achieved, allowing adult canine stem cells to be used in treatment of a variety of diseases among dogs, still further intensive studies are being conducted since many scientists believe that stem cell therapy holds the promise of radically changing the way canine diseases are being treated.
For example, adult canine stem cells are currently gaining widespread use for treatment and therapy, as well as not posing any medical danger to the patient, since findings have already been established about the regenerative and renewal properties of the adult canine stem cell without destructive or damaging side effects.
Adult canine stem cells, also called somatic stem cells, are found throughout the dog’s body and has been linked to the healing properties of living organisms like for example, the ability of the skin to regenerate after it has been injured or the ability of regenerating human tissues due to wear and tear.
Theoretically, with findings on recent stem cell research, scientists believe that it may lead the way to addressing better treatment and therapy of certain types of muscle damage, even cancer, as well as with varied forms of tissue or organ impairments and other medical conditions – both treatable and what may have been thought of as untreatable.
Regardless of the benefits of stem cell research and its medical breakthroughs, however, controversies are still rife since the process of obtaining a canine embryonic stem cell for experimentation.
Deriving an active embryonic stem cell line through therapeutic cloning would require destroying a canine embryo, since many oppositionists to stem cell research argue that this is a similar process to reproductive cloning and is no less an ethical question why the need to subject the life of a living organism to become an instrument of science.
Proponents, however, insist that the pursuit of medical breakthroughs and scientific experiments on the embryonic stem cell is only limited to embryonic samples that are already subject for destruction resulting from in vitro fertilization.
This argument, however, is also being countered by pro-life movers who insist that despite of the process, an embryo is still a living organism, thus has the right to life regardless of the fact that it is already subject for destruction.
The never-ending battle between good and evil is seemingly manifested in stem cell research, since it has created a contrasting atmosphere of animosity and excitement over findings resulting from these researches from various sectors, and will continue to face social and ethical challenges for all sectors concerned.
All the same, a look into adult canine stem cell research – regardless of the challenges it faces- will continue to provide answers and pave the way for more breakthroughs ahead.
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