Other than a bunch of emotional people saying that embryonic stem-cell research "might" or "may" or "possibly" cure alzheimers, is there any medical support for this hope at all?
None so far.
I'm listening to the Audible.com version of "Enough: Setting Limits on Human Genetic Technology" by Bill McKibben. The author asserts what I have come to believe: that embryonic stem cell research is all aimed at cloning and that cloning is aimed at genetic engineering.
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