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Should stem cell research be focused on more than what it is now and is using stem cells the right thing to do.

Stem cells are known to most people worldwide and are mostly thought that they are useless except for helping the body by getting rid of sickness and colds. But research shows that they can do a lot more than just getting rid of the familiar cold. If scientist, doctors, nurses and surgeons looked and listened and even tried out some of the research that people have found than they could possibly have the ability to cure diseases and disabilities that were said to be incurable such as paraplegics and some forms of cancer.

For instance, someone who can’t walk could have damaged spinal cells. This is often caused by a spinal cord injury. This could happen by damaging someone’s oligodendrocytes cells. The oligodendrocytes cells are what send the messages to the brain to move the legs. There for they can walk.

But research shows that if new stem cells replace the old, broken ones, then they could repair the spinal cord, there for giving some one the ability to walk.

But stem cells don’t only repair spinal cord injuries, it can help repair other things such as eye sight and can cure some diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, and one man in Germany got cured of HIV.

But does that mean it’s the right thing to do.

But some people are complaining that the way that stem cells are collected, isn’t right and that it shouldn’t be done unless there are other ways of getting them. The stem cells needed to do this process can be found in a couple of things, but the most common is by giving birth. When a dead foetus is born it carries the stem cells needed for the other people, but it has to be a dead foetus. This has caused a lot of concern from the public thinking that it is the wrong thing to do. But another way to collect the stem cells is in umbilical cords. These carry a lot of the red blood cells needed to complete the process of the spinal cord rebuilding and the curing of HIV.

But now, in this time, collecting stem cells via this a foetus and umbilical cords is the only way to cure such disabilities and diseases but what would happen if we put a little more effort and a little more time into research and tests then we could probably find other ways, safer, and less disturbing ways to find and collect information and the stem cells needed to for fill the needs of the patients.

But do you think that more research and time should be put in to this project?

Most people still wouldn’t agree with this they would say ‘it’s a waste of time’ but look at the facts. It could save millions of lives, many tests have been run in places like Germany and china and they all have come out with positives. Eye sight has been restored, paraplegics are given the ability to walk and cancer has been removed. But that’s only the beginning. What could happen in the later years of scientific research could enable us to do things that we thought were impossible. It could maybe be able to protect us from the sun and maybe make us stronger but without the research and funds needed we will never know right now.

In conclusion I strongly push forward that we should let the people run and test their experiments or we will never know what could have been and what could have happened.