What are the potential benefits of stem cell research?
There are many potential benefits in stem cell research. The main benefit is to gain the ability to duplicate parts of your body (arms, legs, heart, spinal cord, etc.). This would drastically change the world of medicine. Every time someone had to get a lung (or any organ) transplanted there would be no need to find a doner; and once the lung (or any organ for that matter) is transplanted, the patient would not have to recieved drugs afterwards, because his immune system would automatically accept the lung. Also, organs that cannot possibly be donated and accepted in a new body (like spinal tissue) could be duplicated. This means if you are parylized (the spinal cord fractures), your spinal tissue could be duplicated by stem cells and then trasplanted. There are probably more potentials of this kind of research, but I do not know enough about them to explain in full. But here is how stem cell research works. when I say stem cells, I am referring to a cell that grows in to a certain org
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