Bio-ethical idealism, pro-life groups and political lobbyists are standing on the neck of a revolution. Their views must change and soon since embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) may eventually lead to therapies that could be used to treat diseases that afflict approximately 128 million Americans. Treatments including replacing destroyed dopamine secreting neurons in a Parkinson’s patient’s brain; transplanting insulin-producing pancreatic cells in diabetic patients; repairing damage to heart muscle cells are locked in these stem cells and researchers in regenerative or reparative medicine are looking for the keys.
“It is not unrealistic to say that [stem cell research] has the potential to revolutionize medicine,” says former Na
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