A recent article published in the Washington Post on September 30th announced astonishing news made by a group of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers. This important research published in Cell Stem Cell produced a new, safer method of obtaining human embryonic stem cells without having to destroy the embryos that they came from. This breakthrough method finds a way around the moral objections to human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research – That embryos must perish to yield up hESCs.
The new research, led by Derrick J. Rossi and his colleagues solves one of the major challenges facing the medical field in trying to use a patients own cells to treat their specific diseases.
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Maria Konovalenko 