Dr. Shinya Yamanaka just won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for his pioneering work in stem cell research. He discovered a way to take adult skin cells and genetically alter them so they were identical to embryonic stem cells. It is his motivation that is moving. He was looking at human embryos at a friend's lab and realized that there was little difference between them and his own daughters. This inspired his research to find an adult stem cell source that could take the place of embryonic stem cells in scientific research. Adult stem cells are easily obtainable and his work has made the whole battle over destroying embryos for this purpose completely moot. Thank you Lord and thank you Dr. Yamanaka.
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