Is the embryonic stem cell debate in the U.S. a misplaced one? This story reenforces my sense and reading that adult stem cells are far more likely to produce viable medical results than embryonic stem cells. Any fair-minded scientists care to comment?"PARIS -- Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patients own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system...."The rest is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/research/20stemcell.html?hp

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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