Some scientists have "tricked" skin cells into producing stem cells. Could be interesting to see where the embryonic stem cell debate/research goes from here.
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I think it is becoming increasingly clear that embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) was and is over-hyped and that alternative avenues of research that do not have the ethical problems of ESCR are in fact more promising. I for one am glad that our President has taken a principled stand against embryonic stem cell research despite popular (but wrong) support for ESCR.
The logic that it is OK to kill frozen embryos from fertility treatments since their parents are going to kill them eventually anyway is repugnant. It is admittedly a difficult situation to find an ethical solution to, but purposefully causing the death of innocent human life—even for potentially good ends "in the name of science and medical progress"—must not be the way out.
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