Stem Cell discoveries give hope and promise to human health and longevity. Some have questioned the ethics of using stem cells to prolong life, regenerate body parts, and maintain human health on religious grounds. It’s not all that plain and dry, and these cells only work as well as they’ve been programmed and can hijack quite easily and cause other problems should the individual have a diseased area where they’re injected or even cancer.

In fact, there was a very interesting article recently in “Positive Futurist – Cutting Edge News and Information Covering Science, Technology, and the Evolving World” that was published on May 10, 2011 titled; “The Future of Health Care: Stem Cells, Genetics, Remote Monitoring” by Dick Pelletier. There was an interesting prediction in the article;

“Although more research is needed to realize all the hopes and dreams of this ‘stem cell magic,’ progress is advancing exponentially, especially in areas of creating soluble host systems (templates) that direct stem cells to grow into specific parts, such as hearts, livers, pancreas, muscles, bones, eyes, skin, and teeth.”

You may remember when Senator Edward Kennedy had brain cancer and it was thought that a revolutionary new treatment using these cells could save him. What a lot of people didn’t understand is that by putting them in that area of ​​his brain, he would have only caused those cells to be hijacked into cancer cells that would do the opposite of curing him. In other words, it would help the tumor grow, not shrink and be expelled by new brain cells. There may be other future experimental techniques that could work, we’ll see in the future.

While the concept is legitimate, science has discovered that indistinguishable stem cells will become whatever they are told to become, and can be easily hijacked into cancer cells. Banking and backing make sense for other things and could help a lot with an individual’s longevity. However, as people age, their cell copies are not as good and there is more and more misinformation.

Therefore, these techniques for certain types of cancer are not a viable option for the future, even if they hold promise and solutions for other diseases and increase human longevity. In fact, I hope you will please consider all of this and think about it. If you have new research, feedback, questions, or case studies, I’d like you to contact me via email.