The Next Big Step for Stem Cell Research

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What's the next step for stem cell research? New methods are constantly being developed by researchers not only in the United States but also in Japan, Germany, and other places around the world where experts are leading the race to develop techniques that rely on non-embryonic stem cell tissues. Reprogramming cells is a leading focus of studies in both Wisconsin and Japan. The main focus is to engineer skin cells to create different genes that are found in developing embryos. Because such research is leading away from embryonic stem cell research, funding as well as public support has made the task a bit easier than it has in the past due to moral and ethical arguments from the general public.
Federal funding, not only in the United States but also around the world, may help to support the research of many scientists who are making attempts to reprogram and not clone tissue cells. For example, the Stem Cell Task Force at the National Institute of Health in Maryland has announced two separate programs that will fund reprogramming research. Despite the great advances in non-embryonic stem research in the past months, leaders in the scientific and medical community are not quite ready to abandon embryonic stem cell research at this time. However, the trend toward using human adult multipotent stem cells is gaining momentum. "We're still in the early stages of this research," says Evan Snyder, director of the stem cells and regeneration program at the Burnham Institute.

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