Fetal tissue

For the past decade, fetal tissue research has raised worldwide ethical, legal, and social controversy. The primary moral question raised by this practice is whether it is justifiable to “disaggregate living human embryos in order to derive pluripotent cells for purposes of basic research that may someday yield regenerative therapy”(Snead 41). The moral questioning does not arise from what benefits the tissues could possess, but rather how the tissues are acquired because the primary source is from

Tissue from human fetuses is now being used in medical research, as it can supposedly be used to find potential treatments for a wide range of common diseases. A certain bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin even said that fetal tissue research has benefited “virtually every person in this country.” This tissue is collected from aborted babies, and used to help research treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, birth defects, HIV, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and Alzheimer’s. Ronald

Use of Human Fetal Tissue in Research is Morally Repugnant Research on human fetal life involves numerous complex medical, moral, and legal aspects. It is not always easy, nor desirable, to seal off one aspect from another. Both sides of fetal tissue use will be equally focused on as a moral issue. The topic is a timely and important one because research on human fetal life is reportedly a growing industry and the subject of legal developments both in the United States and around

Use of Fetal Tissue Research to Cure/Treat Neurological Disorder The assertion that brain equals behavior brings up many questions and concerns. I am currently most concerned by the effects of physical damage to the brain. Although we have concluded that behavior is based at the lowest level upon the workings of neurons, it is the actual integration of these neurons that account for behavior. Any damage done to the brain either by disease or other disorders can result in a direct change in not

explore the areas of the fetal pig heart along with the sheep heart. I found several similarities and differences between the two hearts. I found that the fetal pig heart and the sheep heart did not show any significant differences. However, one difference I noted was that the sheep heart was much larger, making it closer to the size of a human heart compared to the fetal pig heart. Another noticeable difference was that the sheep heart had an excessive amount of fatty tissue surrounding the outer wall

Damaged Tissue The body will respond to an exercise stress in one of three ways and there may be primary and secondary damage to the tissues as a result of exercise stress. The three responses the body will take to an exercise stress are, the tissues may adapt to the stress and no damage occurs, the tissues may become injured, or the tissues will die. In athletics, athletes often stress their bodies to the point of tissue injury and tissue death. The body’s primary reaction to an injury is tissue destruction

Article # 1: Barzegari, Abolfazl and Amir Ata Saei. "Tissue Engineering in Microgravity Bioreactors." BioImpacts 2.1 (2012): 23-32. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 24 October 2014. Article Summary: The growth of the tissue can be accomplished more efficiently in microgravity. This article discussed the methods that dependent completely on microgravity. Along with that these methods also explains the various cell types such as stem cells. The ensuing builds can be utilized for poison

Hydroxyapatite, substitute apatite, biphasic system. They often have similar properties to the composition of bone. Their objective is to only mimic the mineral component of bone. They can also be considered bio-absorbable. They avoid the formation of fibrous tissue, and encapsulation of the implant, thus isolating it from the body system (this is a result of an immunological response). A lot of metal orthopedic implants are coated with this material, to help avoid this type of reaction. Nonoxide ceramics An

the effect of soft tissue constituent materials in tissue classification for the application of breast cancer detection. Hyperelastic parameters may be essential in estimating large deformation in tissue for the purpose of surgical procedures such as breast brachytherapy. These properties of human soft tissue play a significant role in diagnosis, screening, and monitoring of cancer (O’Hagan & Samani, 2009). On the other hand, elastography is based mainly on the concept of tissue reactions (linear

Over one hundred million animals every year die from animal testing, in the medical and cosmetic fields alone (“Experiments on Animals: Overview”). Animal testing is as big of a problem today as it has been in the past. Most people do not agree with animal testing today but years ago it was one of the only ways of testing. It was considered, if not the only, effective and efficient ways of testing a product’s toxicity. To date, animal testing is not warranted because of the development of new technology