Stem Cells and all those other cells, what’s the fuss all about?

Seems the world has come face to face with one of its worst nightmares, the advent of cloning and regeneration. Well theoretically that is, stem cell research has progressed so much that people are beginning to worry about the ulterior implications of such scientific fervor. Stem cells are the human body’s super cells or blanks that have the ability to turn into a heart cell to a skin cell and the area scientists are working on is how they get them to do so on demand. The subject of cloning has been successful in animals and plants but has been met with strong opposition form most of us humans due to the implications of ethical infractions by which people get cloned from a single DNA sample.
That might have been possible in a lot of Hollywood blockbusters but the advances in genetics and stem cell research are indeed taking us a step closer to such medical breakthroughs. Imagine growing a new and perfectly healthy heart to replace a diseased one that would not be rejected for it is made up of the same genetic materials, your own. Or better yet, have an injection to get a couple of hundred or so Nano-machines to go into your body and scrape away all the plaque on your heart and blood vessels lessening the chances of a heart attack. They have even been designed to carry radioactive isotopes into the body releasing them onto or near cancerous cells, killing them more effectively than current treatments available.
The prospect of a world where nobody dies and everybody is perfectly healthy is not so far off. We have begun to play GOD by manipulating and probing into the innermost workings of the human body down to the molecular level. These advances in medical technology will take time to get out and manifest their true potentials, let us just hope that they don’t become the precursor to the extinction of the human race.

Posted by Nick at 4:04 pm under General, Robots