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Engineering aside the morality

By Gary Stix

Published: June 17 2005 16:39 | Last updated: June 17 2005 16:39

Researchers ponder how to procure ES cells without destroying embryos

What if science, with a shake of a test tube, could circumvent the ethical objections to embryonic stem cell research? Several proposals would in principle let scientists obtain precious embryonic stem cells without harming embryos (equally precious to some) in the process. For eager biotechnologists, that arrangement would sound almost too good to be true - and indeed, it most likely is.

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