Recently written articles on www.AmyShah.com, like The Basics of Stem Cells and some Weekly Updates, helped inform readers of the difficulties researchers have experienced when trying to experiment with stem cells. The morality of using embryonic stem cells is constantly challenged and the current presidential office opposes any further embryonic stem cell lines to be obtained.

So what’s going on with embryonic stem cells right now? Despite the moral challenges, high costs, difficulty of obtaining approval for research, and poor quality of several existing stem cell lines, over 500 companies (with collaborators) are currently conducting embryonic stem cell research. Experts from Nature say that these “hard cells” bring about an entirely new type of bioengineering that will reign over this field for decades to come.

Stem cells have had a larger impact on society than most scientific discoveries. It’s up to us to decide whether to speed up this research by supporting it, or slow down the healing process for millions of dying people.

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