The End of Embyronic Stem Cell Research?

I have always been skeptical of the embryonic stem cell promise. The research keeps say that the major discovery is just around the corner. All it needs is just more money and the government is the only source. The other thing needed was the willingness to destroy an embryo which is consider alive by some. To listen to some, there is no other way. The major advances with adult stem cell mean nothing, it can’t get the human race to where it should be. Well there is another way, it does require destroying an embryo and it was found in the private sector.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells -- but without using cloning technology and without making embryos.

Their breakthroughs could make possible the long-sought goal of tailor-made medicine, but without the political, scientific and ethical roadblock of using human embryos. (emphasis mine)

If the embryonic stem cell crowd had won, research would have been delayed for unimaginable years instead of sped up. It would have been inferior and destroyed countless embryos. Instead, we have a multitude of alternatives and have found a superior source for testing. This may be the corner turn for this type of stem cell research, a corner that never would have been found by those who hold life to be only starts outside of the womb.

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