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SkinCells to Stem Cells - 11/21/2007 4:04:31 PM

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/21/AR2005082101180.html

This latest stem cell breakthrough seems to be getting nowhere near the attention that Bush's ban on funding embryonic stem cell research recieved on this board. It was an area that I had some small disagreement with Bush, but not as rabbid as some Democrat's and liberals here.

So considering the possibility that this skin cell to stem cell research may not have recieved as much attention had the funding .ban not have been instituted, any changes in the level of ethics you see in the research.

In other words if they can make stem cells that are almost identicle to embryonic stem cells, without any embryos. Does that change the ethics of using embryo's to harvest stem cells?

For me it has almost made the idea of embryonic stem cell research indefensible (assuming that the new research is correct and develops as expected) Which is not something I expected to happen.