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Harvard scientists have pledged to continue controversial embryonic stem cell research, despite the initial success of a method that produces similar cells without destroying human embryos...
...Embryonic research, the prevailing method of producing cells with this flexibility, requires destroying embryos, a practice some consider immoral...
...First, even the scientists who achieved the latest success believe strongly that embryonic-stem-cell research should continue. No one knows for sure whether the new method of producing pluripotent cells will pan out or where the next big developments will come from. We are still many thresholds away from anything that can be of practical value to me and others. Scientifically, it makes no sense to abandon any promising avenue just because another has opened...
...method adopted before is the easiest way of getting statistics, but the current method is better,” Halperin said...
This year’s report uses national household surveys, which are believed to be more representative of the prevalence of HIV. Under the new method, the number of HIV victims in India dropped by more than half, to 2.5 million...