Scientists Use Skin To Create Stem Cells
Does this strike anyone else as an unacceptable waste of time and resources?
BTW, here's a link to H. RES. 464, "Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 5) to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research" as referenced in the article. It passed today by a vote of 224-191, 17 not voting.
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Three teams of scientists said yesterday they had coaxed ordinary mouse skin cells to become what are effectively embryonic stem cells without creating or destroying embryos in the process -- an advance that, if it works with human cells, could revolutionize stem cell research and quench one of the hottest bioethical controversies of the decade.
If the process also works with human cells, as scientists suspect it will with some modifications, it would mean that a person's own skin cells could be converted directly into stem cells without having to collect healthy human eggs or destroy human embryos -- steps that until now have been required to obtain embryonic stem cells.
Does this strike anyone else as an unacceptable waste of time and resources?
BTW, here's a link to H. RES. 464, "Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 5) to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research" as referenced in the article. It passed today by a vote of 224-191, 17 not voting.
