Thursday, June 7, 2007

still and always positive

I'm no physician, but this looks pretty huge:

Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells

Seems that these new advances completely (or almost completely) sidestep the main ethical issues of stem cell research. If this turns out to be half as pivotal as it seems, it's really good news, because it'll mean that the NIH can finally start dumping money into one of the most promising avenues of SCI research.

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