30 Jul 2010 @ 1:24 AM 

The stem cell exploration debate has spanned several decades, with presidents like George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush rejecting funding science that tampered with human embryos, and presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama appropriating money toward an end that justifies the means. If a primitive bundle of tissue may be utilised to save thousands or millions of lives and alleviate suffering, then is it worth it? Or does embryonic stem cell research cross the line between man and God?

When does human lifestyle begin? Devout Catholics and Protestants will tell you, “Human everyday living starts at conception, in the very moment when sperm and egg come together. Development from there on out needs to be left up to God and God only.

The illness causes deterioration and destruction to the protective covering (myelin sheath) that surrounds nerve cells. Damage on the myelin sheath severely slows or interrupts nerve impulses, leading to intense discomfort and inability to control movement. Individuals diagnosed with several sclerosis experience episodes of inflammation that cause the body’s immune tissues to attack the nervous system.

Stem Cell Technologies and Multiple Sclerosis
In recent months, treating a patient who has been diagnosed with several sclerosis with their personal immune system stem-cells has proven promise in some clinical trials where by severe nerve cell destruction has not yet occurred.

Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.” Pope Benedict XVI went so far as to say human stem cell investigation was “not only devoid on the light of God but also devoid of humanity.”

Three years later, none with the 23 individuals who engaged within the clinical trials experienced further deterioration, whilst 17 of them showed some improvement.

In even more studies, adult stem-cells that are already taken from a patient’s fatty tissues have shown promise in reducing clinical manifestation of the illness process. Clinical trials making use of mesenchymal stem-cells showed improvement, according to the Journal Of Translational Medicine, describing studies performed at the University of California San Diego. Mesenchymal stem-cells are actually proven to cut down or stop immune activation of cells and target specific areas where by tissue deterioration had occurred.

According for the Koran, human lifestyle begins at Day 120, when the embryo is blessed with a soul, so the fetal stem cells being derived when the embryo is less than two weeks’ old is of little moral concern to them. In a letter to a scientist, Ayatollah Khamenei commended the pursuit of “lofty objectives,” predicting “huge humanitarian wealth.” He did, however, caution against producing identical parts of human beings, which would be considered cloning, which is rejected in Iranian culture.

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