Wake Forest and Harvard researchers claim that they have found that stem cells harvested from the amniotic fluid of pregnant women are as promising as embryonic stem cells. The bonus is that both the mother and fetus were unharmed from the harvesting. There is still the potential issue of women getting pregnant simply for the purpose of getting paid for the stem cells in their amniotic fluid and then aborting the baby, which of course would be no better than what's happening with embryonic stem cells. This might be a good place for a federal law preventing doctors from paying for stem cells, though that could bring about other issues. Nonetheless, it's still a positive step in the continuing saga of stem cell research. I know that there has been some discussion of getting stem cells from the umbilical cord of babies, but this development seems to have researchers much more excited. I guess we'll see.
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