Cloning for Dollars

In its May 23 edition, the publication [Investor’s Business Daily] noted that there have been more than 250 clinical trials using adult stem cells. These trials have produced eighty therapies. One of these enabled a Korean woman who had been paralyzed for twenty years to get out of her wheelchair and take a few steps. This was after only six weeks of the treatment.

To date, there have been -- read closely -- no clinical trials and no therapies produced by embryonic stem-cell research.