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Or, in other words, adult skin cells can be made to regress or rewind to their embryonic state. The feat is expected to put an end to the use of cloning as a way of producing stem cells.
Apart from providing a much-needed fillip to stem cell research that came under fire in 2005 when the UN passed a resolution calling for a ban on human cloning as well as on this field of research, the latest finding is definitely good news for pro-life groups, especially in countries like America. For harvesting stem cells from embryos to treat diseases like Alzheimer's or even cancer, embryos need to be destroyed and this brings in ethical and moral issues.
Renewable organs, disease-free life or even agelessness - innumerable opportunities seem to be opened up by replacement and reproduction through cloning. But it also raises several questions. For instance, is the idea of scientific progress at variance with social or ethical concerns?
Anti-abortion lobbies in America, where President Bush has imposed serious limits on stem cell research, have hailed the breakthrough by saying that scientists have finally found an alternative to advancing their research without killing embryos. But scientists have cautioned that it will be wrong to shelve embryonic stem cell research altogether and the latest discovery is yet to clear several hurdles.
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