Word: stemness
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...team of Harvard researchers has asked the University to approve the cloning of human embryos for stem cell research, and another team will soon seek clearance for similar work. If approved, either team could become the first group to create cloned human cells in the United States...
...request itself is almost certainly the first of its kind at Harvard, and may even be the first in the country, said Charles G. Jennings, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute which is affiliated with both research teams, in an interview yesterday...
...Stem cells are undifferentiated cells found in embryos, whose potential to transform into specialized cells make them prime candidates for the study of many diseases. But stem cell research has elicited controversy because some feel that the destruction of embryos during research amounts to killing human life...
Earlier this year, Douglas A. Melton, co-director of the institute, and Harvard biologist Kevin C. Eggan appealed to the University’s ethical review boards to use stem cells extracted from cloned human embryos to study the development of diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease...
Melton, who is also the Cabot professor of the natural sciences, created 17 new stem cell lines from existing human embryos earlier this year...