Umbilical cord blood banking is the practice of preserving future use fetal blood that remains in the umbilical cord at the time of birth. Umbilical cord blood is important because it contains hematopoietic stem cells.Hematopic blood cells are blood cells that give rise to other blood cells. The use of stem cells can be revolutionary. Cord blood banking can be important to science because scientists will be able to find the cure for blood born diseases such as sickle cell anemia. Umbilical cord blood does have an impact on the nation's economy.Fifteen biotech centers have offered families to store and freeze the cord blood. The companies charge $300 to $1,500 to collect the blood and another $100 to store it. With this resource it immensely could impact the economy. Society has many different opinions on whether to save cord blood or if it is just useless. Through an independent survey most of the women 86% would elect to store cord blood in a public bank, many citing altruism as the reason for this choice. But on the other hand 14% wouldn't consider.Benefits of saving umbilical cord blood is the idea by saving the stem cells found in cord blood if one develops diseases such as cancer the blood can be used to contradit it. The banking of umbilical cord blood offers many advantages: absence of donor risk, absence of donor attrition, immediate availability, and the ability to expand available donor pools in targeted ethnic and racial minorities Their are 2 major risks that are involved with cord blood banking the possible risk of infections from the old unrecycled blood and then the cost Genetic engineering could be considered moral and immoral depending on your point of view. For example, genetic engineering could be considered moral and because some people would do whatever it takes in order to preserve some of the hematopoietic cells which can be used to treat cancer. On the other hand, it may seem immoral to use genetic engineering to modify your health because of the cost. Also, sometimes it doesn’t work, so you spent a lot of money only to find that your disease is not cured. We think that humans should not be re-designing life because of our values and beliefs.
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