Embryonic stem cells

In the recent news, once again, the choice to conduct embryos for stem cell research has been highly debated due to scientist increasing the push to increase length of time an embryo can be grown for.

This was all initiated due to a study whereby they managed to grow an embryo as long as they could before it became lawful. Here is a link to the research paper http://www.nature.com/articles/ncb3347.

So, I just wanted to know what peoples thoughts were on this subject, and if they believe embryo should be used for stem cell research and if they do how long should the cells be allowed to research.

I have wrote an article on this subject if you need to do some catching up

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My personal opinion is that for the future fight against disease the cells should be allowed to mature much longer.

Being aware of other stem cell research like induced pluripotent stem cells do have many advantages, however, they do require many proteins like c-myc, which I am aware stem cells can be induce without c-myc, but as an example using these types protein has shown that some stem cells do encounter a cancerous characteristic.

So, I believe there still is a a great need for research in regards of embryonic stem cells.

Edited May 11, 20169 yr by Phi for All
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