Source: USA Today
Posted: August 22, 2005 7:59 AM EDT
Summary:
USA Today reports on the creation of a hybrid stem cell by researchers at Harvard University, an advancement that could diffuse the ethical controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research:
"Scientists at Harvard Medical School announced that they have created a new kind of hybrid stem cell by fusing skin cells with embryonic stem cells. The advance opens an avenue to creating stem cells without destroying cloned, early-stage embryos or excess embryos from fertility clinics. Because embryonic stem cells are master cells that give rise to all kinds of tissue, scientists see them as a way to cure many diseases. Some social conservatives decry the destruction of human embryos to harvest the cells."
