“Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?: Scientific American”

Good news on one front of the culture wars:

A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?

[Link: Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?: Scientific American]

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December 3, 2008 – 8:05 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Post Comments (2) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."
  1. jb wrote:
    December 4, 2008 at 9:44 am   Link

    It took me a while to figure out why the time display on my cell phone had anything to do with Bio-ethics. :-)

  2. Kevin Winters wrote:
    December 5, 2008 at 10:30 am   Link

    I’m genuinely curious: if an embryo is essentially human, don’t the created embryos have the same ‘right to be born’ as one that is created ‘naturally’ in the uterus? What is it that distinguishes one embryo from the other?

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