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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The latest New England Journal of Medicine has a
few things on stem cells - free access.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#008000>In Missouri this election
season, former Republican Senator John Danforth, an Episcopal priest and
abortion opponent, is citing the New Testament in support of a state
constitutional amendment protecting the legality of human embryonic stem-cell
research. "I find nothing in the Bible that tells me that cells in a lab dish
are people," said Danforth, who lost a brother to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
and believes that the research will lead to new treatments for diseases. "What I
do find in the Gospels is an emphasis on healing — relieving people of their
suffering."</FONT> - <A
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1633">http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1633</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's an interview (mp3) with Danforth as
well. <A
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1633/DC1">http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1633/DC1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#008000>Scientists at Advanced Cell
Technology, a California company, reported in August that a single cell taken
from an eight-cell human embryo can sometimes be coaxed to produce embryonic
stem cells, suggesting that such "biopsies" might be a way to generate new
stem-cell lines while preserving embryos. ... Nature issued
clarifications of its press release shortly after its online publication and
again 2 days later, citing "internal communications problems." Meanwhile, the
findings were prominently reported in the national media as a possible solution
to the Bush administration's opposition to the use of federal funds for research
on new stem-cell lines. A White House spokeswoman was quoted in news reports,
however, as saying that the new technique would not resolve the President's
ethical concerns about the use of embryos in research. Later the same week,
Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a prominent
critic of such research, e-mailed reporters, charging that the study had been
misrepresented. "This experiment left no embryos alive and solves no ethical
problems," Doerflinger wrote.</FONT> - <A
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1634">http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1634</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>--<BR>Stephen Korsman<BR><A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A><BR><A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za">www.theotokos.co.za</A></DIV>
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