Inquiry Contract Progress

Yesterday when I researched about the stem cells i learned more about the differences between the adult stem cell and the embryonic stem cell. The embryonic stem cell is taken from an "inner cell mass" of the blastocytes (thus destroying them) and they can then be used to create any other type of cell. With adults stem cells, however, the stem cells are extracted from adult tissue and, together with a different type of cell which can differentiate (become different types of cells) can be used mainly for repair by replenishing specialized cells. This helps to throw the Stem Cell debate in a new light because, while the adult stem cells may not kill the person it came from, they are not as seemingly useful as the embryonic stem cells. This seems to give more credit to those who are proponents of the embryonic stem cell research but at the same time, the life of the embryo needs to be considered.