Monday, August 27, 2007

What's up with this headline?

"Embryonic Stem Cells Repair Human Heart"

Ummm.... No, they didn't. Unless rats are now have human hearts.

Also of note, this article in the Seattle Times states,
To make the breakthrough, Murry and his colleagues used the so-called "presidential lines" of stem cells. Those cells are generated from a group of embryos that already had been destroyed before the Bush administration limited research on embryonic stem cells.

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