Kathryn Jean Lopez draws attention to an amazing achievement in stem cell research of the non-embryo-destroying kind:
British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
The technique that created the 'mini-liver', currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver.
Described as a 'Eureka moment' by the Newcastle University researchers, the tissue was created from blood taken from babies' umbilical cords just a few minutes after birth.
As Lopez writes:
Someone get this news to Missouri voters. You don't need to be pro-embryonic-stem-cell research to be pro-stem-cell-research, science, and hope.