Neurons Created Directly From Skin Cells

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 28, 2010 @09:49AM from the largest-organ-of-the-body dept.

alx5000 writes "The Times is running a story about a neurologic breakthrough that could revolutionise treatments for conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's: Neurons have been created directly from skin cells for the first time. Quoting neurobiologist Professor Jack Price: 'This suggests that there are no great rules — you can reprogramme anything into anything else.' The article also points out that this method could work around the ethical issues surrounding embryonic stem-cell research."

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Re:Religious issue by cytoman · 2010-01-28 10:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Another example to drive home my point: The same people who are anti choice also distinguish between "embryonic" stem cells and stem cells, and the same people "accept microevolution" but not "macroevolution". Now, there are always exceptions to such generalizations but broadly, religious people are anti-science and anti-progress.