Stem Cells Without Embryos
Nov 20th, 2007 by admin
Given the rate of scientific and technological advances, you had to assume that there would come a day when stem cell research did not need embryos to continue. According to this NY Times article, that day has just about arrived. Two teams of researchers from Japan and Wisconsin have taken skin cells, added four genes and whalah, a stem cell.
Two Harvard scientists said about the research:
“It really is amazing,” said Dr. Leonard Zon, director of the stem cell program at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital.And, said Dr. Douglas Melton, co-director of the Stem Cell Institute at Harvard University, it is “ethically uncomplicated.”
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