Stem Cells

Question 1

What is one use of stem cells currently?

Answer 1

To cure sickle cell anaemia, blood cells are cultivated from bone marrow transplants and replace the dysfunctional ones.

Question 2

What are 3 possible uses of stem cells?

Answer 2

> to create insulin producing cells for diabetics

> to create spinal nerve cells for the paralysed

> to make heart muscle cells for people with heart disease

Question 3

What are stem cells?

Answer 3

Undifferentiated cells that can develop into any kind of cell

Question 4

What are the arguments for stem cells?

Answer 4

> can cure life affecting illnesses such as diabetes

> curing illness more important than the rights of embryos

> most of the embryos are unwanted from fertility clinics

Question 5

What are the arguments against stem cell research?

Answer 5

Each embryo has the potential of human life so some believe it is inhumane

> they believe that scientists should be researching other sources of stem cells