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Article: Skin cells and stem cells.(LETTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It is certainly wonderful and remarkable news that cells that look and behave like embryonic stem cells can be produced from adult stem cells, making the unethical, expensive and inefficient process of cloning and killing human beings in embryonic stem-cell research unnecessary ("Skin cells alter stem-cell debate," Page 1, Nov. 21). Making embryonic stem-cell research obsolete also eliminates the need to risk women's health for their ova.
This discovery eliminates the need for government funding of embryonic stem-cell research and provides the opportunity to ban unnecessary and useless human cloning. It will, however, be ...