Good news for everyone except Republican consultants who like to use the stem cell research issue to rile up their base of fundamentalist conservative Christian supporters:
Human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body.
The breakthrough promises a plentiful new source of cells for use in research into new treatments for many diseases.
Crucially, it could mean that such research is no longer dependent on using cells from human embryos, which has proved highly controversial.
Now, if we can just get all those good Christian couples to adopt more “snowflake babies” so the unused embryos won’t just be tossed out with the local fertility clinic’s medical waste each day, the world will be all better again. Maybe God will even call off the drought across the South. Ya never know, as the NY Lottery constantly advises me …
