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Stem Cell Research Case:
Many people across the globe are experiencing a spanking liberty from affliction, disease, and infirmity due to the increasing frequency. As several people experience physical restoration and healing in their bodies, their lives are transformed forever with renewed hope and strengthened faith. The healings and physical restoration emanate from the miraculous cures of adult stem cell research despite of the ongoing controversies in mass media that tend to dismiss and obscure medical breakthroughs achieved by the adult stem cell research activities. Actually, adult stem cell research has been widely ignored due to ethical concerns though it has been successful as compared to the embryonic stem cell treatments.
Adult stem cell research is basically conducted on regenerative cells of the human body with the ability of plasticity i.e. developing into other bodily tissues (Hughes, 2004). Adult stem cell research has produced numerous exceptional results because the cells are not nebulously potential but they are real and tangible. These cells have been used to treat corneal degeneration, autoimmune diseases, and restoring vision in...
Furthermore, adult stem cell research has also been used for treating Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus.
An example of the successful treatment of diseases through adult stem cell research is the case of Mr. Dennis Turner who suffered from Parkinson's disease in 1990. This disorder affects the central nervous system where a part of the brain, substantia nigra, stops to produce dopamine, a chemical that enables effective motion in a person's body. Turner's condition was characterized by strong shaking on his body's right side resulting in near impossibility of arm coordination to an extent that he couldn't use his right arm. In the initial years of his medical condition, Turner underwent prolonged years of medication that made his condition to deteriorate gradually.
Mr. Turner's seemingly irreversible disease was characterized by the slow destruction of Dopamine Neurons, specialized cells in the brain. Turner's doctor, Dr. Levesque, took a very minimal tissue sample from the patient's brain and removed its adult neural stem cells. The doctor then multiplied and developed these…
References:
Hughes, B.R. (2004, December 1). Real-World Successes of Adult Stem Cell Treatment.
Retrieved April 10, 2012, from http://www.cogforlife.org/adultStemCellSuccess.htm
"Parkinson's Patient Helped By Adult Stem Cell Research -- A Published Case Study." (2009,
February 17). Zimbio: Stem Cell Research and Stem Cell Therapy. Retrieved April 10, 2012, from http://www.zimbio.com/Stem+Cell+Research+and+Stem+Cell+Therapy/articles/44/Parkinson+Patient+Helped+Adult+Stem+Cell+Research
Retrieved April 10, 2012, from http://www.stemcellresearch.org/testimony/turner.htm
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