Another therapeutic possibility is giving a patient an IV of stem cells, which would come from a stem cell bank or a company.
Newsnight has spoken to Stephen Van Rooyen, who has so far declined our offer of an interview on camera and has not confirmed or denied that ACT's stem cells come from AllCells.
So far, the best stem cells seem to come from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process of removing stem cells.
Induced pluripotent stem cells can come from any cell in the human body, including skin cells, so they don't have the moral quandaries surrounding them.
On September 5, the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on stem cell research, to determine more details about where the stem cell lines come from.
The connection is that embryos for stem cell research primarily come from fertility clinics.
The iPS cells, which have many of the same basic properties, do not raise the same ethical questions as embryonic stem cells because they come from skin or now fat cells that have been reprogrammed to go back in time, so to speak, and have the ability to turn into any other kind of cell in the body.
And they would like to come up with a way of finding an ethical way out, essentially, that would give the scientists what they need to develop the kinds of therapies that might come from embryonic stem cells or their equivalent without the moral baggage.
The 5-10 years may come from corporations eager to rationalize drastically shortening careers to the point that US students are bailing from STEM occupations entirely.
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Current rules put in place by the Clinton administration allow federal money for stem-cell research using embryos provided the work is funded by private money and the embryos come from fertility clinics and would otherwise be discarded.
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