Stem Cells in the news
The news on stem cells just keeps on coming, and will continue to do so. Last week,
the notion from a private lab in Mass. that is is possible to take out just one cell from an embryo at a very early stage and develop a cell line without destroying the rest of the embryo. I think they soft pedalled the fact that in this particular context, the entire embryo was a discard anyway- which is the case quite often given the extra embryos produced by in vitro fertilization.
The FDA recently gave in on the "morning after" pill, so perhaps there is hope for the future even with this administration (I doubt it). But the news will continue...
posted by Dr. Norman A. Marcus, MD @ 3:25 PM
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In this particular context, it would always be a discard.
Researchers will never let an "experiment" go full term to birth as they then would be responsible and liable for the life.
To "prove" that taking one cell out of a blastocyst does no harm, wouldn't you have to bring dozens, no hundreds of children to life to test for developmental defects?
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