Topic: Stem Cells From Skin Cells

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Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo ...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/science/21stem.html?ref=science

The research has a ways to go, but could be a new breakthrough in stem-cell technology.

It is not only a new breakthrough in stem-cell technology, but also shows the way towards human cloning.

Personally, I found the breakthrough to be fascinating.

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I see it as a massive advance, not just in the area of stem-cell research and tissue cloning, but in the realm of gene therapy. The use of retro-viruses for genetic manipulation has always captivated me; this seems like a wonderful extension of that technology.