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...news that a Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), had found a way to generate embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo from which the cells came has already predictably raised the hopes of stem cell research supporters. But while ACT enjoyed a nearly 360% jump in its stock price after the news was reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, it's not at all clear that its achievement, while noteworthy for scientific reasons, has actually succeeded in resolving any of the ethical and moral objections - or even the legislative restrictions - to embryonic stem cell research...
...William Hurlbut, head of the President's Council on Bioethics, wondered about the moral and biological implications of removing one cell from a two or three-day old developing embryo. "To pluck one [cell] out is to take something out of the original embryo," he says...
...announcement is an important feat, certainly, particularly from the scientific point of view, since it's the first time that scientists have successfully created human stem cell lines from a single cell of an eight-cell embryo (ACT did the same thing with mouse stem cells last year.) "Many people, including the President, are concerned about destroying life in order to save life," leader researcher Robert Lanza told TIME." This paper now describes a technique to generate stem cells without harming the embryo, and thus without destroying potential life. We are hoping that his solves the impasse, and removes...
...full human being. The proposition that life begins sometime after fertilization is based on convenience, not science, and clears the way for the destruction of the weakest members of society. I am a liberal Democrat and a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U. who considers protection of the embryo a matter of civil liberties. LODOVICO BALDUCCI Tampa...
...embryo divides into more and more cells and forms a hollow ball of cells called a blastocyst...