Are the Stem Cells Wars Over?
Monday, January 8, 2007
This provocative headline from TIME about a new study showing that stem cells are beginning to prove worth the hype -- without the concerns of some religious communities. One of my predictions for this year is that both houses of Congress will overrule a Bush veto on stem cells:
It's always dangerous to use the word "breakthrough," especially in an area of science haunted by contentious politics and the risk of false hope. But a new report in the latest issue of Nature biotechnology makes it hard to resist. Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard have just announced that they've derived stem cells and used them to grow an amazing variety of cells, including liver, bone, fat, blood vessel, muscle and nerve cells. And they did it without even touching an embryo.
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Posted by B Feiler at 4:22 PM
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