My Learning:

This is a recording of my research and learning about Stem Cell Research. At this point I am for Stem Cell Research and am interested in knowing more about all aspects of this controversy. Is stem cell research moral? Should we be saving our children's umbilical cords? Are there laws for and against these acts? Are there people who can help in the political world? Should there be?

This is what I plan to find out. I'm Skyler, follow me.

Thursday

A Brief History

To start, I thought it would be wise for me, and those who read this blog, to understand and make ourselves familiar with the history of Stem Cell Research. Here are some bullet points that are important (i feel) to understand this topic.
  • Scientists have been fascinated with human cells since the invention of the microscope in the 1800's.
  • Early 1900's researchers found that the different types of blood cells came from a particular 'stem cell.'
  • 1963 that the first quantitative descriptions of the self-renewing activities of transplanted mouse bone marrow cells were documented by Canadian researchers Ernest A McCulloch and James E Till.
  • After the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, discussions began about how to conduct ethical research on human fetal tissue.
  • bone marrow transplants – actually a transplant of adult stem cells – have in fact been used in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy since the 1950’s.
  • James Thomson, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1998 successfully took stem cells from the unused embryos given to him by fertility banks. After his ability to grow the stem cells, doors were opened and light shone on stem cell research and it's capabilities.


http://domain883347.sites.fasthosts.com/research/history.html
http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/01/timeline-a-brief-history-of-stem-cell-research/
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