Scientists have been injecting cells into the spinal cords of monkeys who have Lou Gehrig’s- like disease. The point of this new experiment is to find out if stem cells in human embryos and fetuses can regrow healthy neutrons. If successful, it may be a way to treat Lou Gehrig’s in humans. If it works then the FDA may one day let scientist test on desperate patients. Public funding would help to speed …showed first 75 words of 250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 250 total…who were dying and their life span dramatically increased. Snyder, one of the researchers says, “Our job is to get the biology done. If we do our job correctly the story will be so compelling the government and the population will see this is biologically effective…and a lot of the ethical issues will simply go away. We’re not going to have to keep going back and getting new embryos or fetuses.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**