2-year old born without windpipe has one grown from her own stem cells

DCSaints_Fan said

These are iPSCs (i.e., her own cells) not embryonic stem cells, which is where the religious/philosophical objections are.

iPSCs show more promise in terms of actual treatment, because you don't have the issue of host rejection But if we stop the embrynoic stem cell reseach, we won't know what signals induce the iPSCs to form the tissues of interest.

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And all that religious/philosophical stuff is fine. I even agree with the less extreme views...to a point. But prohibiting embryonic stem cell research will do nothing to stop abortions and ALSO do nothing to help anyone. But we need to be putting NASA Space Race type money into stem cell research and treatment. I mean, curing disease and deformity by growing your own body parts WITH your own body parts? That's freakin cool!