Following are quotes from the president-elect Barack Obama in his pre-election interview to Nature magazine1 in September 2008.
“…hundreds of thousands of embryos stored in the United States in in vitro fertilization clinics will not be used for reproductive purposes, and will eventually be destroyed. I believe that it is ethical to use these extra embryos for research that could save lives when they are freely donated for that express purpose.”
“…Recent discoveries indicate that adult skin cells can be reprogrammed to behave like stem cells; these are exciting findings that might in the future lead to an alternate source of highly versatile stem cells. However, embryonic stem cells remain the 'gold standard', and studies of all types of stem cells should continue in parallel for the foreseeable future.”
Let’s all hope the change will come soon and so will be the translation from basic research to clinical cure.
1. Original article:
US election: Questioning the candidates. Nature 455, 446-449 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455446a
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