What are the benefits of stem cell research?

What are the costs and benefits of stem cell research and SKPs?

• Answer:

  Hello! Well, there are 2 kinds of Stem cells, Adult and Embryonic. Adult stem cells have been used successfully to treat over 80 diseases!! You can read more about it and success stories here: http://www.stemcellresearchfacts.org/ It's amazing! On the other hand Embryonic stem cells have had no success (or almost none, I haven't found any.) There doesn't appear to be a cost regarding Adult stem cells. But Embryonic Stem cells are very unstable and have caused cancer, and tumors. Not to mention the fact that they are killing the forming baby. (Who is a human, by the way!) Here are some articles about Stem cell research: (the first one is especially good!) http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/heart-to-heart/2009/03/04/why-embryonic-stem-cells-are-obsolete http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401004.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=embryonic-stem-cells-cause-cancer-i-2009-02-19 Hope that helps!