Stem Cell Breakthrough: No More Need to Destroy Embryos?

Stem Cell Breakthrough: No More Need to Destroy Embryos?: "Stem Cell Breakthrough: No More Need to Destroy Embryos?
John Roach
for National Geographic News
August 23, 2005

Scientists have turned an ordinary skin cell into what appears to be an embryonic stem cell. The process may eventually eliminate the controversial step of destroying human embryos for stem cell research.

The new technique involves fusing a skin cell with an existing, laboratory-grown embryonic stem cell. The fused, or hybrid, cell is 'reprogrammed' to its embryonic state, Harvard University scientists report in the journal Science."