What will eventually come of stem cell research?

Stem cell therapy may be the only thing that will keep my husband from eventually losing his sight, so I fully support any stem cell research aimed at treating diseases of the retina. I hope we see some major progress there within my lifetime.

It will produce the genetically perfect antichrist baby.

^^In other words, you ain’t it @ragingloli!

Regrowth of limbs and freedom to be foolish because everything can be fixed… even death.

I sincerely hope it will lead to being able to create compatible organs for people needing them. Using your own stem cells to create them, meaning no chance of rejection.

How will they be able to resist playing with creating creature who are part this and part that? The possible combinations of animals could be interesting.
However, I think that first they should work on substituting or re-growing defective parts or removing defective genes.

It’s being looked into for a cure for diabetes. Several members of my family are diabetic, so this is something I would love to see come about in my lifetime.

Enables one to live longer ( 120 years?)
Might need this should the earths inhabitants be radically decreased in the next decades?

@livelaughlove21 I held out for a time on cataract surgery because I hoped that stem cells might mean I cold grow clear new lenses for my eyes. They have soft plastic ones now that your eye muscles can focus near and far, but they don’t give real clear vision at any focal length. I ended up opting for fixed-focus glass inserts because they do yield good focus at the focal length they are designed for, and glasses can compensate for other focal lengths. tell your husband I send my very best wishes for a full cure for him. I was functionally blind in my left eye and had very blurry vision in the right eye before surgery, so I have some appreciation for what he’s facing.

@ragingloli Sorry to disappoint. But stem cells can only make copies of DNA that’s already here, and must be coded by existing cells to take on specific functional roles. Without a working Antichrist to copy, we can’t make one.

@Dutchess_III Don’t be so sure. Those Antichrist types always try to throw you off their trail.

@talljasperman Freedom to be Foolish. The American Dream is upon us.

@augustlan It certainly does hold out enormous promise.

@Sunny2 It actually would take a far greater understanding of cell replication and the factors that guide it to produce frankenfish than to produce skin cells for a burn victim where you already have some healthy cells to work as guides.

@chyna I am confident that research will pay off. I sincerely hope for the benefit of your loved ones and for all those who have diabetes that the solution is close.

@Inspired_2write With over 7 billion people on Earth now, being able to live to 120 would also mean that all the homophobic arguments about the need to crank out babies as fast as possible are absurd.

Depends upon the type of stem cells you speak of… (I still can’t fathom why more people don’t understand the differences between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells, and differentiate the two, deservingly so).

I propose, what will eventually become of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, is that the false promise potential will be recognized by all, and be once and for all, abandoned, for the good of all.

Whereas the continued, and ethical research of Adult Stem Cells has not only provided exponentially more advancements, but has also led to the discovery of Pluripotent Stem Cells and Cord Blood Stem Cells, which render the Embryonic research irrelevant.

At some point in the future it will make organ donations obsolete.