Los Angeles Times: Stem cells created without destroying embryos, by Karen Kaplan:
Scientists reported Thursday that for the first time they have madehuman embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a developmentthat the government’s top stem cell official said would make thecontroversial research eligible for federal funding.
Story Landis, who chairs the National Institute of Health’s stem celltask force, said that with certain safeguards, the new method appearedto comply with federal restrictions that have largely cut scientistsoff from the $28 billion the government spends on medical research eachyear….
Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., createdfour stem cell lines out of individual cells plucked from 3-day-oldembryos, which continued to develop normally after the procedure. Themethod was described in the online edition of the journal Cell StemCell.