Less and Less of a Need For Embryonic Stem Cells
Friday, September 26th, 2008 at
4:05 pm
The latest advancement in stem cells is that it’s getting safer to convert adult stem cells to “induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells” (basically what embryonic stems cells are). Adult stem cells are already curing loads of diseases, without the need for destroying embryos. This is just one less reason to want to rely on the ethically murky embryonic ones.
Filed under: Doug • Ethics & Morality • Medicine • Science • Stem Cells
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There can’t be “less of a need for embryonic stem cells” because you can’t have less than none. There never WAS a need. There were just some Dr. Frankenstein ghouls who … God alone knows what would motivate somebody to kill tiny human beings when all they were accomplishing was making people sicker and killing a lot of lab rats.
OK, fair point. Perhaps it should be less of a perceived need for them, or that this development gives less weight to those arguing for the use of ESCs.