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Originally Posted by Knotbored

Is it fair to suggest that none of the several breakthroughs mentioned here would have been investigated if aborted fetuses financed by federal funds were easily available to these researchers?

Then it's also fair to suggest that had investigating aborted fetuses been financed by federal funds scientists wouldn't have to waste time with breakthroughs on stem cell sources and instead had breakthroughs on curing illnesses. So instead of a cure for parkinsons we get a new source of stem cells.

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Bone formation from embryonic stem cells.

Jojanneke Jukes of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has succeeded in growing bone tissue with the help of embryonic stem cells for the first time.


From left to right, you can see the carrier material (greyish in colour) and the cartilage tissue (light pink) on which bone (dark pink) is being formed.

-- Tom

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Scientists make cells that form eggs and sperm in lab.

U.S. researchers have found a way to coax human embryonic stem cells to turn into the types of cells that make eggs and sperm, shedding light on a stage of early human development that has not been fully understood.


A doctor at the Alma Res fertility clinic in Rome works prepares eggs and sperm for an attempt at artificial insemination in this file photo from June 7, 2005. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

-- Tom

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Stem-cell treatment helps restore eye-sight.

Six blind patients have had their eye-sight restored after undergoing pioneering stem cell transplants.

-- Tom