Sir stem cell research has huge potential for medicine.
Here is a list of stuff which will benefit from it
1. Cure/treatment for cancers like Leukemias, Hepatocellular cancer etc
2. Aplastic anaemia/ or any aplastic blood disorders
3. All kinds of organ transplants.
-------->>>> In transplants section alone, the benefits are so huge. Traditional transplants need immuno suppression since the transplant recieved by the body is foreign to it, just like the way microbes are viewed foreign by the body's immune system. Hence, just like the way, the body's immune system clears the infection, the body/s immune system tries to clear the transplant, since that transplant is a foreign material to the body. But in case of stem cells, which have been harvested for a boy at his birth, this stem cells can be used for the culture of the organs artificially, for transplant which can be used without the fear of transplant rejection/ immune reaction, since the stem cell being taken from the same body, they have the same genetic material as the host and hence are not considered as foreign.
Why this is important is because the transplant patients, not only suffer from the graft rejection, which leads to failure of the transplant, they also need a significant immuno suppressive therapy, which will make them susceptible to oppurtunistic infection, which usually dont bother the healthy persons, just like the persons with AIDS. Hence, the potential benefits in this alone is worth investin a lot in the stem cell research:thumb: