It’s hard to believe that in the last eight years, no real progress was made on the advance of stem cell research. Preliminary tests and experiments have already shown what amazing things can be done with stem cells if given the chance. From repairing someone’s central nervous system to regrowing organs for transplant, the subject truly does seem like it is straight out of a science fiction movie from the future.
Although the technology is still in its most premature form, stem cells have the potential to become one of the most important aspects of the medical community. The possibilities seem to know no bounds and could repair an astounding number of people who suffer from injuries and conditions that there are no known cures for.
One of the reasons stems cells have gotten such a bad reputation over the last eight years is because of religious leaders believing that the embryos that supply scientists with stem cells could have been babies. This is another aspect of this subject that is very futuristic in nature. However, the embryos are not fertilized and so would not have been babies. Every month, women’s bodies shed and egg or eggs during their process of menstruation. All it takes is one of them to unlock the amazing healing powers of the human genome.
Imagining a future where almost any ailment in the human body can be repaired with stem cell technology is difficult to do right now. However, the technology is there, it just needs to be perfected in order to make use of it. Once regulations are lifted and experimentation is allowed to continue, it might be one of the single greatest discoveries of our time. Imagining the sheer number of people whose lives will be improved is staggering and in the near future, indeed.
