A
U.S. team of scientists has created
lines of stem cells that have 10 different incurable diseases using adult
tissue. This would seem to indicate that
scientist can study these diseases without creating or destroying
human embryos.
The
Scotsman reports on the touching story of a leukemia
patient whose life was saved by her younger brother’s adult stem cells. Excerpt:
EVERY time three-year-old Bethanie Thomson
looks at her little brother, she will be staring at the boy who saved her life.
The young leukaemia sufferer is recovering
after receiving a life-saving stem cell transplant from her baby brother –
without which she would have faced certain death.
As
Australia’s ABC
News reports “new adult stem cell trials in Australia could mean fewer
people needing organ transplants in the future.”