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 * Stem Cell Article**

In 1998 at the University of Wisconsin by Dr. James A. Thomson Becaue its almost like picking what you want in your baby,not letting human nature take the toll on its own. People don't like it when other step in and try to tamper with nature through science. Things like this are and have always been bery controversial. By using human skin cells into a embryonic stem cells with no use of the human embryo at all. These are things that are found in all multi-cellular organims that they have the capability to renew themselves through cell division. THis can no t be replicated by any other cells out there. Deffinatly diabetes, because this is when your pancreas doesn't produce any insulin anymore. If you used stemcells and injected a person's pancreas, then the cells would go right in and start the pancreas back up again. Thus the person would never be a diabetic again, since their body would produce insuline on its wown. He says that he does it through using skin cell that on the surface appear to be embryonic stem sells with no help from the human enbryo. THe key is to find cells that fit that description of looking like one thing but actuially being another.
 * (1) When were stem cells first taken from a human embryo?**
 * (2) Why is obtaining stem cells from a human embryo so controversial?**
 * (3) What was/is the source of human embryos for stem cell research?**
 * (4) What is a stem cell?**
 * (5) What diseases do we think we could treat with stem cells?**
 * (6) Dr. Thomson is in the news again because he has turned ordinary skin cells into stem cells. How did he do this?**