This breakthrough may allow George Bush to claim victory and those against his position of limiting federal funding of research to already established stem cell lines have been upstaged by this discovery.
"'If future experiments indicate that this reprogrammed state is retained after removing the embryonic stem cell DNA ? currently a formidable technical hurdle ? the hybrid cells could theoretically be used to produce embryonic stem cells lines that are tailored to individual patients without the need to create and destroy human embryos,' said a summary of the research reported on the Science site.
That could lead to creation of stem cells without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos in the process, thereby sidestepping much of the controversy over stem cell research."
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