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Not all that long ago, I was in a bit of a heated debate here in the forums, about embryonic stem cell research. My concern was whether or not we could achieve the same or similar results with placenta stem cells, or with any other cells. The question has finally been answered, per this AP story below. There remain issues to work out, but we are on our way to a more effective, more economical approach to addressing such terrible diseases as Parkinsons, Diabetes, and more.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/stem_cells&printer=1;_ylt=Aho9K_VVhbRLk3ookWESgelxieAA
"Scientists have created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells from ordinary skin cells, a breakthrough that could someday produce new treatments for disease without the explosive moral questions of embyro cloning.
Research teams in the United States and Japan showed that a simple lab technique can rival the complex and highly controversial idea of extracting stem cells from cloned embryos...
"...Thomson said he was surprised it didn't take longer to discover how to reprogram ordinary cells. The technique, he said, is so simple that "thousands of labs in the United States can do this, basically tomorrow."
In contrast, the cloning approach is so complex and expensive that many scientists say it couldn't be used routinely to supply stem cells for therapy...
"...The new work shows that like cloning, "direct reprogramming" can also use ordinary body cells to create versatile cells that are genetically matched..."
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Stem Cell / Direct Reprogramming - Good News! - 
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