More on one of the winners of Nobel Prize, given for his (ethical) stem cell research

This is a blog posting on The Foundry, which is a part of The Heritage Institute.

Ethical Stem-Cell Researcher Wins Nobel Prize for Medicine

The core of Yamanaka’s discovery was that scientists could create stem cells with all the same properties as those derived from embryos without killing—or even using—embryos at all. (When this scientific breakthrough was first announced in November 2007, I explained the science and ethics of this new technique in “The End of the Stem-Cell Wars.” Alas, a better title would have been “What Should Be the End of the Stem-Cell Wars.”)

The New York Times explained what drove Yamanaka:

Inspiration can appear in unexpected places. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka found it while looking through a microscope at a friend’s fertility clinic.… He looked down the microscope at one of the human embryos stored at the clinic. The glimpse changed his scientific career. “When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters,” said Dr. Yamanaka.… “I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”

After years of high-pitched debate and front-page news coverage, surprisingly little has been heard on the subject of stem cells since the 2007 breakthrough on alternative stem-cell research.

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