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Republican_Man
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 Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:21 pm Embryonic Stem Cells Proven Unnecessary |
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As far as I'm concerned, this disproves a need for further embryonic stem cell research. I say we should put more focus on making this research better and better.
| Quote: | Stem cell breakthrough uses no embryos
NEW YORK - Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.
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Laboratory teams on two continents report success in a pair of landmark papers released Tuesday. It's a neck-and-neck finish to a race that made headlines five months ago, when scientists announced that the feat had been accomplished in mice.
The "direct reprogramming" technique avoids the swarm of ethical, political and practical obstacles that have stymied attempts to produce human stem cells by cloning embryos.
Scientists familiar with the work said scientific questions remain and that it's still important to pursue the cloning strategy, but that the new work is a major coup.
"This work represents a tremendous scientific milestone � the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers' first airplane," said Dr. Robert Lanza, chief science officer of Advanced Cell Technology, which has been trying to extract stem cells from cloned human embryos.
The rest of the article is found at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071120/ap_on_sc/stem_cells. |
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TrekkieMage
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| Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:13 pm |
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Until this method is 1. repeated by multiple institutions, and 2. becomes practical (ie - actually used on a patient) I believe that we shouldn't abandon any method of creating stem cells.
Also, it's not clear from what I can read of the article if this technique produces a cell that can develop into a virtually unlimited variety of cells.
I hope that this technique does eventually work and that it will solve these problems, but until I can see the report that they published I'm going to remain *very* skeptical. The media has a way of massively distorting any news about stem cell research...
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