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Scientists turn skin cells into sperm cells, but raise provocative new questions

2014-05-05 22:02:16| Extremetech

New research, just published in the journal Cell Reports, suggests that sperm cells can be created in the lab from skin cells. What this really means is that the limitations to further progress in the science of cloning and stem cells are no longer scientific or technological in nature. Instead, the limits have become the problem of a new kind of engineering -- ethical engineering.

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