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...rest of the country and the world,” said Leonard I. Zon, the chair of the HSCI’s Faculty Executive Committee. “We hope the advances in this field can help thousands of patients.”Melton and Harvard biologist Kevin C. Eggan will lead one team, focusing at first on diabetes research. Daley’s team, which is based at Children’s Hospital, has been conducting preliminary SCNT experiments on malignant blood diseases for the past two months.CUSTOM-TAILORED CELLSIn SCNT, the nucleus of a fully differentiated cell...
...create stem cells. That's the technique that South Korean scientists claimed they had used to create nearly a dozen stem cell lines from diseased patients before admitting earlier this year that their results had been fabricated. HSCI will recruit donors first from the Boston area, Dr. Kevin Eggan, one of the lead investigators, told reporters. Although egg donors to IVF clinics are paid, HSCI decided not to compensate donors for the stem cell studies, to be sure that the women did not feel pressured to participate in the research for financial reasons (they will be reimbursed for expenses directly...
...review" before approving the studies, according to Harvard Provost Dr. Steven Hyman. Last year's scandal over the South Koreans' similar studies also weighed heavily on the board, and will continue to inform the researchers as their studies begin. "We certainly realize that all eyes [are] upon us," said Eggan. The approval process eventually involved four other institutes, including Boston IVF, where the egg donors will be recruited, Children's Hospital, Partners Health Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Columbia University, where some of the patients will be enrolled...
...Eggan, a principal faculty member at HSCI, will work with Melton on diabetes and also generate stem cells to study nerve diseases such as Lou Gehrig's disease...
...avoiding the moral pitfalls of past embryonic stem cell research.Scientists within the Harvard community said that while the research is interesting, it points to a trend of focusing on finding ways to avoid moral issues in stem cell research, rather than researching clinical applications to help cure disease.Kevin C. Eggan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology and member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, said that although the research done by MIT scientists is a “technical masterpiece,” it still does not address the moral question surrounding embryonic stem cell research...