Obama supports fully stem cell research and has granted federal tax dollars to pay for the research when previously the scientists had to get private funding. Though this took years to get the funding they needed it has come at a time when advancement in technology and medicines have been made with a varietyof stem cells. In 2007 Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese biologist, found that Adult stem cells can be reprogrammed to an almost embryonic state with little difficulty. This technology will allow for a removal of need for embryonic stem cell research, which takes most opposers out of the debate and into the side lobbying for the research. "For researchers, reprogramming an adult cell can be much more convenient, and therefore having never been any restrictions on working with adult stem cells." 1 For therapy and treatment factors, treating patients with their own cells would avoid the problem of immune rejection.
Since embryonic stem cells have many disadvantages to them, more than the adult stem cells, such as the possibility of causing tumors, or rejection by the patient's immune system, the disease the patient has could possibly kill those embronic cells. This makes it even better to use adult cells and turn into an embryonic-like cell (seeing that they are easier to convert into the necessary tissue) without all the side effects.
Since embryonic stem cells have many disadvantages to them, more than the adult stem cells, such as the possibility of causing tumors, or rejection by the patient's immune system, the disease the patient has could possibly kill those embronic cells. This makes it even better to use adult cells and turn into an embryonic-like cell (seeing that they are easier to convert into the necessary tissue) without all the side effects.
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