Bone Marrow
Another helpful way to obtain stem cells, is from various different parts of adults. One of the palces they can be found is in bone marrow. This has obvious medical advantages, such as an eliminated risk of rejection by the person whom they are taken from.
There are still ethical issues with this from some groups of people, but this is an important way to gain sterm cells, and could still save lives.
Closing Comments
Stem cells can be very helpful, and depending on your views, you may think that using them, or harvesting them in certain ways may be wrong, or correct. Either way there is hope that a compromise can be reached, with both safe and ethically correct ways to harvest them used.
Last Modified: 12/01/2007
