Researchers Fuse Skin and Stem Cells
AP reports: “Harvard scientists announced they’ve discovered a way to fuse adult skin cells with embryonic stem cells, a promising and dramatic breakthrough that could lead to the creation of useful stem cells without first having to create and destroy human embryos.”
“If future experiments indicate that this reprogrammed state is retained after removing the embryonic stem cell DNA  currently a formidable technical hurdle  the hybrid cells could theoretically be used to produce embryonic stem cells lines that are tailored to individual patients without the need to create and destroy human embryos,” said a summary of the research reported on the Science site.
Will that make both sides happy now?
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