The Telegraph looks at the attempts of bioethicists to divert the course of medical research into regenerative medicine based on embryonic stem cells. As Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology notes, it is "a sad day when we have to use cloning and genetic manipulation to deliberately create crippled human embryos – and not for any scientific reason, but simply to appease religious leaders. I sometimes have to pinch myself to make sure we're not still in the 12th century." Meanwhile, more than 100,000 people continue to die from age-related conditions each and every day - the ethical path here is quite clear: full steam ahead to try and cure age-related conditions and ultimately the aging process itself.
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2005/01/19/ecfstem19.xml