The lure of embryonic stem cell research

E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., and Senior Fellow in Ethics at the Culture of Life Foundation, has this post on the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. An excerpt:

Recall we said that ESCs possess the quality of pluripotency, that is, the ability to develop themselves from an undifferentiated cellular state into most any differentiated cell type in the human body. This wide-ranging capacity for differentiation—this pluripotency—is the coveted property of ESCs. Defenders of the research dream of a day when the powers of ES cell pluripotency have been fully harnessed.