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Stem cell strategies showing promise

Scientists are pursuing two different ways to create embryonic stem cells without destroying an embryo. The techniques are in early stages of research and have been tested only in mice. But they ââ?¬Å?raise promising possibilitiesââ?¬Â and will open up a new dialogue in the national debate over stem cell research, says William Hurlbut, a professor at the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University and member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.