Before giving this assignment to work on I was 100 percent against stem cells research. But
            
             due to extension research I found out that stem cells can provide us with a myriad of possibilities
            
             in medical technology, but not without bringing with it serious moral and ethical dilemmas. For
            
             the sake of our children and their children after them, it is imperative that we resolve these
            
             current issues in genetics. In this research paper I will give the definition of stem cell, the current
            
             techniques in stem cells research, and how it would benefit the medical field.
            
             Stem cell is a general term used to identify any cell that has the ability to divide indefinitely
            
             and to differentiate into other specific cell types when properly stimulated. This differentiative
            
             and proliferative capability is due to the unrestricted state of the activation of gene expression.
            
             The complete genome of any mammalian cell has on the other of 105 genes that may or may not
            
             be expressed. Depending on the selection and sequence of these genes or gene products, the
            
             cell can give rise to any cell type. Generally, genes can be activated and inactivated leading to
            
             different cellular phenotypes. These directed activations and inactivations are what led the stem
            
             cells to its terminal cellular type. Through intra and inter-cellular signaling, the cell wall, in a
            
             step wise manner, gradually differentiate with each step resulting in a new irreversible phenotype
            
             Specifically different from the last and closer to that of the terminal cell type.
            
             A stem cell that is completely undifferentiated and has the ability to become any cell type is
            
             referred to as totipotent. In mammalian cell biology is zygote. The fertilized egg will undergo
            
             several rounds of division as a cluster of totipotent cells. At approximately four days post-
            
             fertilization, the cells called a blastocyst...