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...make stem cells that have the disease genes and use them to play the disease over and over.” Because of the ease with which stem cells can be reproduced, they can also be easily used to test the effectiveness of certain drugs. Eggan??s lecture was part of the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Society’s monthly seminar series. “It is a great way of introducing undergraduates to the amazing research that the Harvard faculty does, and a great way for the faculty to interact with students,” said...
...research—which was proposed by co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton and Harvard biologist Kevin C. Eggan??was quietly approved by Hyman in January...
Melton and Eggan??s research would harvest eggs from volunteers and skin cells from people with diseases like juvenile diabetes...
Melton and Eggan??s work would only allow embryos to grow for two weeks, and they would never be put into a human body to develop further...
Hyman said that even though there are deep moral questions involved in Melton and Eggan??s proposed research, he felt that it was important to move forward...