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...Doug drew a line in the sand," says Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the organization charged with dispensing state money for embryonic-stem-cell research. "He turned the tables on an Administration that was incredibly negative toward stem cells and showed [it] we are not going to tolerate being put out of this field by ideological views that we don't think are correct." Melton's motivation was, again, both professional and intensely personal. Two months after Bush announced his ban, Melton's daughter Emma, then 14, also received a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes...
...Experts were quick to warn that significant hurdles remained before the technique might ever be used in people, but the sheer simplicity of Yamanaka's discovery-he found just four genes were required to reprogram the mouse skin cells-was cause for elation. "This is great science," says Alan Trounson, professor for stem-cell sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "It takes us a big step closer to reprogramming adult cells...
...Trounson's approach works as well as he says, it could transform the economics of the test-tube baby business. Standard IVF can cost more than $100,000, but Trounson says he can slash that figure 80% by eliminating drugs, curtailing testing and reducing doctors' fees...
American fertility experts doubt that Trounson's method will save as much money as he claims. What's more, they question whether the treatment will be useful for the majority of infertile women. "I don't think we have data to prove that this will give the woman a better chance of success," says Dr. Suheil Muasherof the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia. Trounson admits that he cannot predict the procedure's success rate, but in cattle, 30% of the embryos from immature eggs become calves. That's slightly better than the current 25% success rate...
...soon to tell whether Trounson's technique will revolutionize the treatment of infertility. But the desperate couples who face the emotionally and financially draining ordeal of making a test-tube baby will be eager to find...