Re:Not for the US (Score 3, Informative)

Agreed.

From the Korea Times: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200411/kt200411261 7575710440.htm

Kang added that since cord blood stem cells are later than embryonic stem cells, they have little chance of causing the fatal teratoma. ``Embryonic stem cells are omni-potent in that they can divide into any thing even including a tumor cell. But cord blood stem cells are developed enough not to cause such troubles while retaining as powerful a differentiation capacity at the same time,'' he claimed.

Let's forget about the moral/ethical reasons for not pursuing embryonic stem cell research - let's look at it from a scientific (*gasp* - a conservative Christian talking about science!) point of view. Less capacity to cause cancer = a good thing, no?

- Another Brandon (my last name is Danner)