StemCell Therapy

Are Stem Cells Good or Bad?

Do you know what a stem cell is? Stems cells are the undifferentiated biological cells, which have the potential to develop into different types of cells with specialized functions. They also help to repair the damaged cells in our body. These cells also have the ability to renew themselves via cell division even after remaining inactive for a long period of time. Due to their regenerative properties, stem cells are nowadays being experimented to treat the various diseases.

Though these cells are present in all our bodies, they function more effectively in a fetus. Hence, there are two types of stem cells adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. Bone marrow transplantation is the only stem cell therapy, which is being used widely today. The use of stem cells for treatments and other experiments have always been the topics of controversy. Like all the medicines and treatments, the stem cell therapy also will cause both positive and negative effects on our body. Some of them are mentioned below:

There are many people who consider the treatments using the stem cells as unethical. The government authorities also do not extend a wide support to these experiments. The various states in the US have even banned the research activities of the embryonic stem cells. The destruction of the blastocytes which happen during the stem cell research is also considered to be immoral by many people.

Moreover, most of the treatments and research on the stem cell therapies are based on theories. Though more than 3500 research studies are happening on the stem cells and the treatments using them, there are no proven results on them. Some of the stem cells, even use immunosuppressant on patients before doing the transplantation in order to prevent the chances of rejection of these cells by the body. This can cause various harmful side effects on the patients after the treatment.

Though the stem cells provide solutions to a wide number of diseases, the therapies done using them cannot be trusted completely. As it remains unproven, it has to be decided by the people, if they want to subject their lives to such experiments with no certain outcomes.

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