Source: Baltimore Sun
Posted: June 7, 2006
Summary:
Harvard University researchers announced an ambitious, privately funded plan to create human stem cell lines from cloned embryos, a controversial venture that could lead to treatments for diabetes, sickle-cell anemia and other ailments. The scientists said the stem cell lines, created in part from DNA taken from sick patients, would also enable them to observe how diseases develop at the earliest stages of human life - long before symptoms are evident.
Commentary: Hopefully this experiment will eventually enable both the effective treatment and prevention of diseases and conditions.
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