AR-News: (Phillipines) Interest in regenerative medicine heats up

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Paul Elias , AP Biotechnology Writer 
SAN FRANCISCO—In laboratories the world over, scientists bent on turning back 
our biological clocks are looking past harvesting human embryos and cloning 
in their quest for disease cures. 
A small but growing group of researchers seeking the proverbial fountain of 
youth insists its work has no kinship to cryogenics—freezing Ted Williams’ body
—or other fantastic scientific forays in life extension. 
What these scientists hope for is to be able to make old cells young again, 
imbuing them with all the potential healing power that youthful cells may 
possess. 
Perhaps most significantly, they want to create stem cells without having to 
destroy embryos in the process. 
Years of work remain, but the researchers are hard at work building 
biological time machines that reverse aging in some cells. 
Some are trying to reset biological clocks by mimicking “magic factors” in 
human eggs—the only cells in a woman’s body not programmed to die. 
Others are identifying molecules that enable salamanders to re-grow limbs. 




full story:

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/mar/17/yehey/opinion/20040317opi6.htm
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