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Evolutionist · 08-23-2005, 10:18 AM

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A reported breakthrough in stem cell research may lend new weight to the campaign against the use of human embryos in research, one of the most pressing ethical controversies facing governments in the U.S. and elsewhere.

American and British researchers say that they have found, in umbilical cord blood, a new type of cell -- neither embryonic nor "adult" -- which is more versatile than the latter while avoiding the ethical dilemmas surrounding the former.

And in a further development, the scientists have found a way to mass-produce the new cells, sidestepping the problem of limited supply of embryonic cells.

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This seems to be an interesting new form of research- obviously I doubt ESCR will stop, and I have no reason to think it ought to- but this does seem to be another method of getting stem cells.

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