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Science Friction

If you knew that saving one person might mean the death of another, what would you do? What if you knew that thousands could be saved, how would you act then? Would your opinions change if one of the people being saved were your mom or dad, or even you? Would you be against it if the death were of a child, an embryo in this case, which to some is considered a human being?
This is one of the major dilemmas surrounding stem cell research. Stem cells are cells found in an early stage of embryonic development. Embryonic stem cells have the potential of developing into one of 130 different types of human tissue, which are eventually found in a fully formed fetus. Such tissues include blood cells, heart cells and brain cells. In a developing fetus, numerous stem cells are found that can produce all the different tissues of an adult body. The hope is to use some of the stem cells to replace tissues of any human in certain cases where new tissue is needed. This could be a......


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