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Excerpt from Bradley Fikes North County Times article 11-22-07: "However, Goldstein said even if the new method produces perfect embryonic stem cells, that in itself could cause objections. He said that one person he talked to said that if the cells could give rise to all the cell types in the human body -- the so-called "totipotent" cells made by a fertilized egg -- they would be the moral equivalent of human embryos. Evan Snyder, head of stem cell research at the Burnham Institute, said success in making embryonic cells from skin cells doesn't prove that the president was right with his restrictions. The genes used to produce embryonic cells from skin cells were discovered through working with natural embryonic stem cells, he said. "What we find is that each informs the other," Snyder said. "If you're talking about therapy, they need to be tested head-to-head in the exact same animal model to see which is most useful in a particular disease . ... You may need one type of cell for one disease, and another type of cell for another disease. Snyder said Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research actually retarded the breakthrough reported this week, perhaps by five years." Rayilyn Brown Board Member AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn [log in to unmask]