The use of stem cells in office procedures as the practice of medicine is commercializing in the USA, there are risks that arise because of this, but there are also benefits that are possible. Regulation is needed, but barring an MD and its patient from these procedures simply pushes them outside of the country or into incognito modes. This is where true danger arises, a path to expeditiously and ethically practice should be established where the patient consent is true, and the doctor is enhanced in his practice rather than tied down.
8. What is a Stem Cell?
“Stem cells are non-specialized
cells that have the capacity to
become all the different cell
types found in the body”
9. What is a Stem Cell?
• From one stem cell the entire human body is formed.
• Stem cells are the providers of new cells in the tissues
and organs of the body.
• Stem cells replace cells that die daily.
• They have the capacity to form different types of cells
• There are different types of stem cells characterized by
the tissue where they are found and by their capacity
to differentiate.
• Some types are likely to form tumors if used for
treatment of illnesses.
12. Ethics and Morals
• “Open discussion”
Psalms 139:16
Your eyes saw my unformed
body; all the days ordained for
me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
GOLMI – My Embryo
13. Adult Stem Cells
• They maintain and repair the tissue in which
they are found.
• They can regenerate themselves or
differentiatite into the tissue where they are
founf.
• The do not carry any moral or ethical
conditions.
• These are not more likely to form tumors than
the natural risk present in the healthy
population.
16. Illness and Aging
• When you are injure or become sick, your cells
die or become disfunctional.
• Aging is a manifestation of the internal
depletion of stem cells in the body.
• Without stem cells the human body cannot
survive.
• Adult stem cells can be used as treatment for
a diverse group of conditions.
23. Homework
1. What is a stem cell, in your own
words.
2. What are 2 functions of stem
cells, in your own words.
3. How to stem cells relate to God?
4. What are the basic types of stem
cells?
5. How does the telomere have
anything to do with aging, and
what do you propose is the next
discovery needed to tap into this?