Stems cell could eliminate the need for transplants and in turn save more lives and it also helps surgeons when they perform transplants due to the fact that adult stem cells may be injected into the tissue in question while it is in the body because it will help prevent the immune system from rejecting the new transplant and it will also prevent any viral or bacterial infections from occurring ,due to the stem cells extraordinary ability to make any human tissue imaginable, it can be used to heal organs that are badly damaged such as kidneys and many people who are in need of kidneys, have recently travelled to China, the only place where it is actually legal to use stem cells, in order to save their lives and many of the patients actually made it out of China healthy. “Science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with answers that have so long been beyond our grasp. I just don't see how we can turn our backs on this -- there are just so many diseases that can be cured, or at least helped. We have lost so much time already, and I just really can't bear to lose any more."-- Former First Lady Nancy Reagan
Stem cells are still in very early development and many people question its potential. However although it is in development many people have already benefitted from its effects, for example one patient was told by his doctors in America that his heart was very weak and it was only a matter of time before he dies, his heartbeat got as low as 20 beats per minute, so he decided to go to China and try out this miracle treatment and he had open heart surgery and he had stem cells injected into the heart and in a matter of months his heartbeat had regained a normal rate and he was discharged and sent home and he is still currently living a healthy life. Another example of success was when a young boy who drowned and stopped breathing for 10 minutes was revived but sadly he was fully paralyzed, so his family decided to take him to China and he got regular stem cells injected into his spinal cord and in a matter of months he managed to move his right arm. "I support stem cell research. I think it is very, very important that the whole nation pulls together on a federal and a state level."-- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Many scientist at the start of the research doubted that the stem cells could work on everybody. However stems cells have been proven not to have any serious side effects if the treatment doesn’t work and any fears of allergies caused of stem cells have been tossed due to a new study which proves that human can’t have allergies to stem cell due to the fact that the body considers them as an important cell
In conclusion I believe that stem cell research is an important discovery that could dramatically change our lifestyle and even life span. They could eliminate our fears of disease or even pre mature death, and it promises to reduce aging and even prolong our lives and if this research was understood completely than it will surely revolutionize medicine as we know it.
Research from:
National Geographic channel documentary on stem cells
Sherif Badreddine