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Article: Stem cell gains lost in politics: Scientists are finding benefits in adult and embryonic types.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 7, 2007
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Byline: Jeremy Manier
Jun. 7--Outside the bruising politics of stem cell research, scientists are rapidly moving beyond the black-and-white contrasts that have fueled the moral battle over their work.
Conservatives have staked out a position opposed to all stem cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos, championing methods that derive stem cells in other ways.
Advocates of embryonic stem cell research, on the other hand, argue that only embryo-derived cells can form any type of tissue, offering unique hope for diseases such as Parkinson's and diabetes.
Yet researchers who work with stem cells increasingly describe the ...