Controversy-Free Science?

Meissner and Jaenisch

MIT biologist Rudolf Jaenisch (right) and graduate student Alex Meissner have genetically engineered a mouse embryo incapable of forming a placenta and becoming a full-fledged fetus. Is this an ethical answer to the stem cell conundrum?
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