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• Title: Stem Cells from Skin Cells: The Ethical Questions.
• Author : The Hastings Center Report
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 152 KB

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Recently, research teams led by Shinya Yamanaka and James Thomson published separate reports that they had genetically modified human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells. (1) Like their embryonic counterparts, these induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) were capable of forming all three germ layers both in vitro and in immuno-deficient mice, demonstrating their remarkable pluripotential character. Furthermore, the two teams' iPS cell colonies were genetically matched to the human skin cells from which they were derived, thus enlivening the possibility that one day (perhaps soon) patient- and disease-specific pluripotent stem cells could be generated for research that could later yield downstream clinical benefits. Now that human iPS cells have arrived, many will wonder whether the thorny ethical challenges surrounding stem cell research can be fortuitously bypassed. This is hardly the case. While the scientific possibilities of iPS cells are enormously exciting, human iPS cell research raises both new ethical complexities and old philosophical problems.

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