New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns

nytimes.com — Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo, a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field. All they had to do, the scientists said, was add four genes. The genes reprogrammed the chromosomes of the skin cells.. Nov 20, 2007 View in Crawl 4