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Nature 439, 145-147 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439145a; Published online 11 January 2006

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Medicine: Politic stem cells

Irving L. Weissman1

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Research on embryonic stem cells holds huge promise for understanding and treating disease. Many people oppose such research on religious and ethical grounds, but two new methods may bypass some of these objections.

In this issue are two new methods1, 2 for producing pluripotent stem-cell lines — the great future hope of regenerative medicine*. Both papers report proof-of-principle tests in mice of techniques that might be used for making human pluripotent stem-cell lines.

  1. Irving L. Weissman is at the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, B257 Beckman Center, 270 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
    Email: irv@stanford.edu

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