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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92a10882-a0d3-424a-aba3-0d24d064a2c3/56971454-3399-4E50-AD4B-E075C554797C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/32F68F04-9D9E-40CE-BD6B-023408C1E9C3" alt="Stem Cells" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells"><H5><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn9982">Instant Expert: Stem Cells</A></H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells">Fast-forward to the end of the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century: surgeons can <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg19025463.100.html">create new organs</A> to order, regrow <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn8911.htmlhttp:/www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn8911.html">crippled spines</A> and <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn8006">hearts</A> and reverse the damage of <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn8468.html">Parkinson's disease</A> or diabetes with ease. <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn8546.html">Immune rejection</A> and <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18725125.700.html">waiting lists</A> for replacement organs are consigned to history. Stem cells may have the potential to <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn6486.html">fulfil this promise</A> and much more, but there are still many <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18825304.000">technical</A>, <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn6486.html">ethical</A> and <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn7120.html">political</A> obstacles to overcome before real therapies are possible. <DIV class="colspacer">Despite their <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18625013.200">medical promise</A>, stem cells have been dogged by <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn6486.html">political and ethical controversy</A> because some are derived from discarded <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18625053.500.html">human embryos</A>, and because of fears and <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18124350.100.html">confusion</A> about links with <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18124352.600.html">human reproductive cloning</A>. The future of stem cell therapies was thrown deeper into doubt in late 2005, when a leader of the field - Woo Suk Hwang, South Korea's stem cell king" - was found to have <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/dn8557.html">forged key discoveries</A> and <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18925375.900">flouted ethical protocols</A>. So has the stem cell miracle <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/stem-cells/mg18925421.600.html">been postponed</A>?</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/56971454-3399-4E50-AD4B-E075C554797C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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