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/sci/ has this idea been suggest before?

1. Parents conceive
2. Parents pay scientists to use blastomere extraction to take some stem cells from embryo
3. Child's stem cells are cultured as he grows
4. Child now has access to his own stem cell bank to treat him with future problems.

Pros:

- No ethical problems, the stem cells are the childs
- Stem cells from embryo more useful than those found if harvested as an adult

Cons:

- Hard to implement

What's the benefits of stem cell research and is it legal anywhere?

Anyone on here working in biomed or similar fields. Also how does someone break into stem cell research, I know it is controversial and a lot of the time gets ban hammered by old fogey legislators who think its unethical.

I'm not from around these parts so bear with me. How do cells "know" where to go/what shape to make. After a cell becomes a liver cell or after a liver cell undergoes cell division, what is the process of creating the correct shape and size of a liver?

When do you think Stem Cell treatment will be available?

Do Embryonic stems really have any advantage over Adult stems?

Hey /sci/

How many years are we from perfecting stem cell therapy, or from repairing nerve damage due to spinal chord damage? Will it happen in this decade? Will it ever happen?

what do you think about embryonic stem cell research?

Bio people,
If almost all cells in the human body have the genetic coding for all other parts- just deactivated...
what's so special about stem cells? How come we cannot alter a 'normal' cell the same way since it has all the same coding?
Thought occurred to me the other day and I'm sure there's a simple explanation.

In an around an Hour I have to have two pages worth of information about
Adult Stem cells and say how they are different than any other type of stem cells and as much information as possible.


/sci/ can you please help me.

Sup sci, i'm sitting here bored as fuck, and these days most boards such as /b/ are just full of degenerate retards posting gore and cp.
So i'd like to see some for and against arguments on the topic of stem cell research.

stem call thread

im doing a project to get me into national science assosiation or something like that

Needs to be like 5 or 7 minutes
powerpoint sort of thing
example or experiment would help

help me out /sci/

A problem on our study guide. I can't figure it out for the life of me. Can someone walk me through it?
Looking at the following mRNA sequences, tell me what the amino acid sequences are for the original and mutated mRNA, and what type of spontaneous mutation occurred. (missense, nonsense, silent, etc.) You will need the genetic code to figure out the corresponding amino acids.

Original mRNA sequence:
AUGUUCGAA

Mutated mRNA sequence:
AUGUACGAA

people in graduate school or with degrees with anything related to stem cell research/regenerative medicine or cell bio chime in on the field overall.

undergrad student here looking for more perspectives on going to grad school and jobs/life after school in the field.

can someone please explain exactly what stem cell research does to someone who isn't really all that much of a biofag and in highschool?

What if someone was bald and you took some blood cells from them, corrected the bald genes and injected it back into them? Would they take on the new characteristics?

Would it work if the volume of new blood transferred was a larger?
Or how about altered stem cells injected right into the marrow?

> http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1577949/

>Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.

>The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV infection; this was due to a genetic profile which led to the CCR5 co-receptor being absent from his cells. The most common variety of HIV uses CCR5 as its ‘docking station’, attaching to it in order to enter and infect CD4 cells, and people with this mutation are almost completely protected against infection.

>The case was first reported at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, and Berlin doctors subsequently published a detailed case history in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 2009.

>They have now published a follow-up report in the journal Blood, arguing that based on the results of extensive tests, “It is reasonable to conclude that cure of HIV infection has been achieved in this patient.”
God told them to do it

Religion -1

atheist -0

Hey, /sci/, I'm doing a stem cell research paper and just have one question:
Which scientists have made the most important discoveries in all areas of stem cell research?
Google just brings up a plethora of scientists, and with an essay maximum, I'd really like to just narrow it down to the most important.
Just a few names (one or two), would be wonderful.
Thanks in advance!

/sci/ why is stem cell research illegal in Washington state as of December 6th?

ITT: Stem cells and their ethical problems

Just out of curiosity, what is /sci/'s opinion on stem cell research.

Personally i supportit, as embryo's are not biologically alive

I'm not sure how the majority of /sci/ feels about this subject, since 4chan has a tendency to surprise me when it comes to politically sensitive things (e.g., when 99% of daytime summer /new/ is hardcore conservative manchildren). But it shouldn't be a problem, since I'm not trying to start a debate. I just have a question.

Could you guys explain the stem cell controversy to me? I'm not a moron, and I understand how Christians and other groups feel about abortion and anything else related to fetuses, but I don't understand the specific reasons for opposing research involving stem cells, embryonic or otherwise.

Obviously, scientists are not killing embryos to harvest their stem cells. As I understand it, they are using stem cells from embryos which are already, for whatever reason, deceased. People seem to oppose this practice, claiming that embryos should be considered human beings, but even assuming they are human beings, using their stem cells for medicinal purposes is no different from using a deceased adult's organs. The only problem here is that the embryo could not give consent, but that's not something that I hear anyone complaining about.

TL;DR: What's the big deal with embryonic stem cell research?

Also, has there ever been any success using adult stem cells? And is there anyone out there who opposes their use as well?

im fucking bored is there any thing science related i can read or do?

I have some questions about stem cells. How many years will it be until we can use them to restore the skin of burn patents on a large scale? How long will it be until we can create structures that were damaged such as ears and eye? Will it ever be possible to create structures that were lost at birth or never developed correctly?

What about cosmetic usages? How long will it be before women get breast implants that started as stem cells? When will it be possible for men circumcised at birth to grow new foreskins? Will it ever be possible to cover up scars with stem cells?