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August 28, 2006

Embryonic stem cell research

For or against ? the debate about embryonic stem cell research got a boost with the announcement that a California biotech company, Advanced Cell Technology, has managed to extract a cell from an embryo without destroying it. This should remove many of the objections from religious bodies, but given how the conservatives seem to impose their view of morality on scientific endeavors, it does not look like we will be seeing any federal funding for this quite yet. Good editorial on the subject in the New York Times.

Posted by on August 28, 2006 at 03:44 PM in Science |

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