Will This New Stem Cell Treatment End The Controversy?

Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they can become almost any type of cell. Since stem cell research is so controversial, researchers might have found a more ethical way to use stem cells. Julian joins DNews to explain.


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Embryonic stem cells
“Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage preimplantation embryo.”

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[DarthVaizard]

Anybody who thinks we shouldn't use embryos to do this kind of thing doesn't realize the magnitude of the number 7 billion.  Honestly, I'd rather save the people we have now than the people we can BARELY even call people...

[ETStudios]

Here's the thing. "Morals" have nothing to do with science. Morals and ethics aren't the same things, and it's only because people love shoehorning their subjective morals into everything that it's even potentially controversial to begin with.

It's good, and pretty cool, that they figured out a way to circumvent the "moral dilemma" non-issue, but I still find it idiotically unscientific for it to have needed to be worked around in the first place.

[ThenZya]

I like this new host. I think he fits the show perfectly. 

[Stfranklin]

This new host...I felt myself nerding out with him the more excited he got.

[rtswift]

the only thing i understood from this video is I can be wolverine.

[rurutuM]

well if we fail to make ourselves into Wolverine, we end up like Deadpool

[ddrx]

Best video ever. :) Been waiting for such a progress for a while.

[DaOwlMonstar]

I agree with a lot of the other folks who have commented; Julian is a fantastic addition to the DNews team. He's entertaining and upbeat and just fun to listen to in general. I hope he sticks around for awhile! (As much as I appreciate the time and effort put in by some of the other new faces recently, several of them don't seem to be as engaging. Just a personal opinion.)

[RespectFalseIcons]

i like this new guy and his pair of ears too.

[kwwombts]

He's fun, but he is informative! Doesn't make fun of the topic, i like him :D

[akiotheutau]

I bet people are going to find something to complain or hate about him

[TurboSol]

To me the moral issue is simple, we should have great respect for an embryo because it's a developing human, can it feel or think at the earliest stages? Probably not, and in some cases I think it may be the better moral choice to abort since the mother IS a thinking and feeling human and so would trump the developing human embryo. The problem I see is the lack of respect for human life, there are people aborting because they don't want stretch marks to mess up their bodies and crap like that, that's what bothers me, in those cases I see it as an immoral choice to abort.

[tbqmuqr]

Happy birthday dnews 4 years from today

[Barry.Kelly.]

we were talking about this in class yesterday. good timing.

[javiersuarez]

all Dnews videos are very interesting. why you are always so short of pictuares, diagrams and so on?

[kingman]

I hate when the Church stands in the Way of progress 

[liberkhaos]

1:41 "Be nice guys!"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You're new around here aren't you ^_^
Nice video though. Looking forward to seeing if that works.

[goatmonkey]

Eventually stem cells will become a fountain of youth.  It should be working and approved by the FDA about a week after I die. 

[edris]

what about teratomas? Are they still an issue with this method?

[yumri]

my question is that is will this comapre to the 3D printed liveing tissue organs? or is this the 3D materal used to 3D print a living tissue organ?