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Morality and Federal Funding Associated with Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research What is your personal moral standpoint on stem cell research? In today`s society, it is hard to differentiate between morally correct and politically correct, the line is often blurred in view. The intent of this research is to further scientific advancements but the …

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A Review of Stem Cell Therapy in Ischemic Stroke Contents 1 ABSTRACT 2 INTRODUCTION 3 Neural stem cells (NSC) 4 Bone marrow derived stem cells ABSTRACT Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Effecting over 15 million people worldwide. Of those 15 million cases 5 million will die and a further 5 million …

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Agents that Inhibit Stem Cell-resistant Chemotherapy As cancers are heterogeneous, drug discovery efforts are aiming to increase patient survival and will surely need to consider the plasticity of cancer cells (Singh and Settleman, 2010). Cancer stem cells have a higher intrinsic resistance to chemotherapy than do normal cancer cells, and may be the source of …

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Stem Cells and Reverse the Aging Process To delay or perhaps, reverse aging is a topic that occupies the mind of many researchers. Stem cells are tools that help study aging because : they divide and renewing themselves for long periods,they differentiate into different cell types as they are initially unspecialized. These cells are immortal, …

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Cloning: Antibody Cells CD34, CD45, CD73, CD90 and CD105 Human cloning is a widely controversial topic to people who do not fully understand the science behind cloning as most people have an ethical issue with cloning a human. While it is called human cloning it is not the process of completely cloning a full body …

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The Potential Benefits of Human Cloning Human cloning is a very disputed topic among many individuals living in today’s world. However, the future of it is bright due to the many benefits that it can bring forth. Such as, cures for genetic diseases, prevention and protection against genetic diseases, medical advances, hope for infertile couples, …

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Stem Cell Biology Contents 1 The immune privilege of tissue engineered articular cartilage derived from mouse adult mesenchymal stem cells and the potential of tissue engineered cartilage as a gene delivery method 2 Chapter 1 Stem cell biology 3 1.1 Categorization of stem cells 4 1.2 Selected milestones of stem cell research 5 1.3 A …

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The Stem Cell Debate Contents 0.1 The Stem Cell Debate: Ethical Questions 0.2 Latest Developments 0.3 Background 0.4 Pros 0.5 Cons 0.6 Where It Stands 0.7 Research Ethics and Stem Cells 0.8 The Basic Ethical Problem 0.9 Evaluating the Benefits of Embryonic Stem Cell Research 1 Judging the Benefits 2 Comparing the Benefits and Harms …

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Hydrogels Contents 1 HYDROGELS FOR WOUND HEALING APPLICATIONS 2 Abstract 3 Keywords: 4 1 Introduction 5 2 Requirements of an ideal wound care system 6 3 Hydrogels for Wound Healing Applications 7 Table 1 Hydrophilic polymers used to synthesize hydrogel matrices. [13] 8 3.1 Natural Hydrogels 9 3.2 Synthetic Hydrogels 10 Table 2 Absorption of …

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Prostate Cancer Stem Cells | Sciences Dissertations Contents 1 Characterisation of prostate cancer stem cells 2 Abstract 3 Background 4 Methods 5 Results 6 Conclusion 7 Introduction 8 Aim 9 Material and Methods 10 Cell Culture 11 RNA Extraction 12 Reverse transcription 13 Polymerase Chain reaction 14 Gel Electrophoresis 15 Relative Quantitative PCR 16 DATA …

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Animal Testing has been a Part of Pharmaceutical Animal testing has been a part of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and toxicity research for many years. Many innocent animal lives are being taken for the sake of science, when it is unnecessary to do so. Scientists have had the knowledge of human embryonic stem cells for research for …

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Ethical Dilemma of Embryonic Stem Cell The topic of a human embryonic stem cell research (HESCR) has been a controversial issue since late 1990s. Opponents of HESCR have been arguing that it is not only a waste of federal funding, it is also against a moral code. Former President George W. Bush, a republican, placed …

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Solving Back Pain with Stem Cell Therapy Back pain is one of the most common complaints doctors hear from their patients. While there are many treatments available, stem cell treatment for back pain is quickly becoming a viable option. Stem cells are able to help rebuild joint cartilage, tendons, ligaments and muscle tissue, all of …

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Skin Stem Cells Adult stem cells are the undifferentiated cells that are involved in the maintenance, renewal, and repair of various tissues and organs. These stem cells are found in particular niche in a tissue or an organ where they remain undifferentiated and are activated to undergo division and differentiation to maintain the tissue or …

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Stem Cell Therapy The heart is one of the most essential organs in the human body. It is what keeps almost every organism alive. However, recent studies have found that heart disease is the leading cause of death in America, creating a problem for the medical communities that are trying to save lives. Not only …

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The Power of Stem Cells Stem cell therapy has been a controversial matter in the media for years.Just recently there is evidence stem cell therapy can be a potential treatment for chronic pain. Chronic pain is pain lasting 6 months or longer and is recurrent.An estimated 30.7% of Americans suffer from chronic pain in today’s …

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History of Stem Cell Research Stem cells were accidentally discovered by two scientist’s researching in the Ontario Cancer Institute, Till & Ernest McCulloch examined an anomaly during a study they were conducted on the effects of radiation on mice. The mice were exposed with an ample amount of X-rays to kill them in 30 days …

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Stem Cells: what they are and what they do As the world advances in medical technology, there is developing research on the focus of Stem Cell therapy. Countries around are using government funds to boost their programs and be competitive in the global innovation race. However, the United States (U.S.) created laws that limits the …

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Gene Editing in Hematopoietic Progenitor Stem Cells The genome editing using engineered nuclease has strategically transformed the idea of gene therapy for monogenic diseases including in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) (Osborn et al., 2016; Yu et al., 2016). The genome editing technology enables to create a site specific double-strand break (DSB) by the …

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Drug Screening on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as an Effective Form of Treatment This proving iPSCs are a better option because they have similar findings as the mouse model with more of an advantage linking to the human patients since these iPSCs were from human patients with the disease. Overall the end goal is to …

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Stem Cells: the Superhero Cells Wouldn’t it be great if we are able to manipulate cells for our own welfare? Stem cells can help victims who are diabetic, paralyzed, and even burn victims. Stem cells are helpful for victims who have had third degree burns. It can help make insulin for people that are diabetic, …

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Drug Screening on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells_ as an Effective Form of Treatment Drug screening and induced pluripotent stem cells are still fairly new components in the scientific world but continue to expand as more research is being conducted. Just in 2006 induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) branched off of embryonic stem cells that were …

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Ethical Debate of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Human embryonic stem cells are unspecialized cells that can turn out to be any of the 200+ particular or separated cells that complete the particular elements of the body, for example, skin, blood, muscle, and nerve cells. Researcher trust that human embryonic undifferentiated organisms have a boundless …

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Advanced Functional Biomaterials for Stem Cell Delivery in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Contents 1 Biomaterials for stem cell delivery in cardiovascular regeneration 2 Regenerate the Cardiac Tissue Biomaterials for stem cell delivery in cardiovascular regeneration Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are disorders of the heart and the blood vessels which are the leading cause of morbidity and …

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Embryonic Stem Cells What if I told you that researchers could cure diseases like Diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimers or Parkinsons? The chances of you being on board with ending these horrible diseases that millions of people suffer from each year is extremely high. The cures of these diseases are the potential result of embryonic stem …

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Stem Cells: what they are and what they do This section offers a summary regarding the background of the topic concerning how Stem Cell Research and treatment works and its purpose together with application in the real world. The stem cells are usually capable of developing into different cell types both in the embryonic period …

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How Far is too Far: is Stem Cell Research Playing God? Contents 1 Introduction: Research Problem 2 Religion & Stem Cell Research 3 Assessing the Costs: Who pays? 4 Benefits & Socioeconomic Status 5 Conclusion 6 References Introduction: Research Problem Dolly the sheep was the first big breakthrough in stem cell research during the 1990s, …

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Embryonic Stem Cell Solution for American Culture More than thirty years ago, in 1981, scientists were able to successfully extract embryonic stem cells from mice, effectively opening a door to new discoveries in scientific and medical fields. Stem cells are unspecialized cells meaning that they have no set function in the body. Scientists have also …

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Stem Cell Delivery in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Contents 1 Regenerate the Vascular Tissue 2 Biomaterials for Stem Cell Delivery in Neruoregeneration 3 Regenerate the Brain Tissues Regenerate the Vascular Tissue Blood vessels composed of endothelial cells and mural cells play key roles in tissue regeneration and repair by serving as conduits to deliver oxygen …

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Is Stem Cell Reasearch and Treatmetn Ethical? Bethesda, MD. Stem Cell Basics I. National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2016, https://stemcells.nih.gov Accessed 25 November 2018 The source gives an introduction to stem cells, explaining what they are and their importance. The source continues to go into information on different types …

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Todays World of Economics Whilst prokaryotes do not have a structured nucleus and other composite cell organelles found in eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic beings allocate the some general features with eukaryotes with the knowledge of cell division is, For instance, they both reproduce DNA in a semi traditional manner, and the separation of the lately formed …

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Prokaryotic Vs Eukaryotic Cells In life’s hierarchy, cells make up the lowest level of organization. Cells can perform activities required to sustain life. A cell’s ability to divide to form new cells is the basis for growth and repair in organisms. Cells also play a key role in the recycling of carbon, a chemical element …

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Stem Cells: Aspiring to Naivety Stem cells are undifferentiated cells of multicellular organisms. Specifically embryonic stem cell are pluripotent, meaning they can create several different types of cells. With this new knowledge, biomedical research has ascended to new levels. To get embryonic stem cells biologists first produce via vitro fertilization, which is where an egg …

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A Problem of Abnormal Number of Chromosomes Having an abnormal number of chromosomes is known as aneuploidy. Aneuploidy opens the window for many possible diseases, and among these are down syndrome, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and acute myeloid leukemia. Normally, baby fetuses have 46 chromosomes; 23 from the sperm cell and 23 from the ovum. However, …

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First Common Genetic Clue to Lung Cancer It is a well known fact that cigarettes can cause lung cancer. Even though this fact is well known, some people smoke daily for their whole lives, and never get the disease. Because of this, there was a search for an explanation. Three studies have found a marker …

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Flow Cytometry Spermatozoa Contents 1 State of the art in sperm assessment using flow cytometry 2 Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Definition of flow cytometry 5 Function and types of flow cytometry 6 Advantages of FC compared to other conventional techniques to explore sperm structure and function 7 Application of flow cytometry for sperm count 8 …

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Flow Cytometry Contents 1 State of the art in sperm assessment using flow cytometry 2 Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Definition of flow cytometry 5 Function and types of flow cytometry 6 Advantages of FC compared to other conventional techniques to explore sperm structure and function 7 Viability 8 Changes in sperm membrane permeability 9 Sperm …

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Biology Membrane Lab Introduction: In this lab i used glucose and starch to show if the cell membrane is permeable, impermeable, or selectively permeable to these substances. Dialysis tubing is a plastic like substance that has small pores in it. These pores allow certain chemicals to flow into and out of the cells. The size …

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ABSTRACT Adult mammalian ovary has been under watch for over 10 years now since it was proposed to home stem cells that experience postnatal oogenesis amid reproductive period like spermatogenesis in testis. Ovarian stem cells are situated in the surface epithelium of adult and menopausal ovary and in addition in ovary with early failure. Ovarian …

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A stem cell transplant is a treatment for some types of cancer. For example in the case if person might have leukemia, multiple myeloma, or some types of lymphoma. It also treat some blood diseases with stem cell transplants. During those day, patients who needed a stem cell transplant received a bone marrow transplant because …

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Stem cells were discovered around 1981 when the first embryonic cell. These cells were discovered by Dr. James Till and Dr. Ernset McCulloch. There are many experiments that have been conducted such as putting stem cells into pigs hearts that have had heart attacks, and their hearts would end up brand new. For humans, this …

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What are stem cell, and how are these type of cells important for research and for humans? Stem cells are a unique type of body cell that have the ability to divide and renew themselves for long periods of time, remain undifferentiated in form, and develop into a variety of specialized cell types. Stem cells …

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What are stem cells? According to (LHCrypto 2017), stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types. Stems cells are also known as the body’s raw materials-cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are produced. Furthermore, stem cells divided themselves to form more cells called …

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Regenerative medicine is a branch of medicine that has been developed in recent years. Advances in this field have been closely linked to new knowledge acquired about stem cells and their ability to become cells from different tissues. This medicine is based on behaviors adopted by the organism to replace healthy cells with those damaged …

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Japanese therapeutic specialists just picked up endorsement to treat patients with coronary illness through a novel undeveloped cell process. The method is called actuated pluripotent stem (iPS) cells – stems cells made by instigating cells of body tissues like skin cells to return to an embryonic-like state. This enables the undeveloped cells to then form …

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Evolved in the late 1980’s, tissue engineering has now promised to improve, repair and replace damaged cells.The field of tissue engineering is rapidly growing with advancement in technology and becoming a major part of the biotech and medical industry. This type of engineering mainly links cellular and molecular biology together with mechanical and chemical engineering. …

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Definition Stem cells are undifferentiated or ‘blank’ cells found in the human body that have the potential to develop into many different cell types that carry out different functions. Introduction Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. In addition, in many …

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The medical field has grown leaps and bounds. This is in part due to all kinds of research being done. One area of research is adult stem cell research. Over the last decade adult stem cell research has come a long way. There is of course controversy in doing stem cell research. I would like …

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Embryonic stem cells, as their name suggests, are derived from embryos. Most embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized in vitro—in an in vitro fertilization clinic—and then donated for research purposes with informed consent of the donors. They are not derived from eggs fertilized in a woman’s …

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EGCG preconditioned adipose derived stem cell confers enhanced neuroprotection in aged Wistar rats. Adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADSCs) co-cultured with Epigallocatechin gallate were injected into 20 month aged Wistar rats. Haematoxylin and eosin staining of the cerebral cortex revealed noticeable neurogenic activity and visible improvements in the integrity of the pre frontal cortex tissue …

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