I remember when my older daughter was born I was given some documents to sign if I wished to donate the placenta toward research. I figured it would be trashed anyway so why not put it to good use.
I guess it all boils down to educating the masses.
Spot on, if you had someone there explaining whta they would do with the placenta, extracting stem cells using those to improve/ save someone's life, then wouldnt u have donated? Instead it's just a doctor/ nurse who doesnt know what they will be doing with the placenta and a sheet of paper
You'd be suprised by the lack of education, once I tell people that I'm doing genetics I usually get two things:
1) what's that?
2) so like biology, cloning and things, like dolly the sheep?
What they dont realise is that there's a lot more to it than just that
You know, I had that option too...to donate placenta. And since I had worked for a couple of years for a placental pathlogost. I knew how important it was. Yet I also asked that the cord blood be taken and stored for donation and was told that I'd need to pay a 1200 fee. Its sad that the most impotant research materials are being discarded because of lack of funds to transport and store. Its like hey, here is your research material but they cant take it cause its too expensive and they cant afford it.
I donated the cord blood too for both my kids.For the first one I actually had to research a faciity as all hospitals do not collect cord blood for donation. I arranged for an out of State facility to collect the cord blood (taken out by the doctor). For my second, lucikly the hospiatl was affilaited to a research facilty so they accepted teh donation, but I had to ask for it. Its not something that is advertised a lot so you have to arrange it yourself, nor is there a lot of knowledge about it among teh general population.. Infact for my first one, I had to push them to accept me as I had applied late in the pregnancy to the facility. I thought it would be a nice thing for my children to do, a good deed immediately after entering the world!
Cord blood cells are not at all controvesal, supposedly even the pope thinks so. The embryonic ones are. Why they are more controversial in the USA as compared to Europe is teh mind set as Americans are a bit more consrevative than Europeans. Infact, the UK jsut passed a bill for embrynic cell research which involves craeting a human and animal hybrid embryo!!! Just sick!!!
oh yeahhhh! i heard the news a few weeks ago. i’m on the fence with it. the animal DNA is like…0.1% or something like that. an dthe chances of producing a minotaur or something like that is so nil…cuz nature doesn’t work like that. it doesn’t let eggs develop which are messed up like this. but i mean the thing is this is what the scientists are forced to do because they cant seem to find enough research material. the big scientist for this study did say that they would destroy the embryos after so many days of development =/ it’s to be seen what good it does.
Spot on, if you had someone there explaining whta they would do with the placenta, extracting stem cells using those to improve/ save someone's life, then wouldnt u have donated? Instead it's just a doctor/ nurse who doesnt know what they will be doing with the placenta and a sheet of paper
You'd be suprised by the lack of education, once I tell people that I'm doing genetics I usually get two things:
1) what's that?
2) so like biology, cloning and things, like dolly the sheep?
What they dont realise is that there's a lot more to it than just that
So what do you think they should do help people understand. This could save so many lives?