The underground stem cell trade

Sickening report that sheds light on an emerging threat to legitimate stem cell research:

“The problem is, I am not sure how the cells are prepared,” he says. “A six-week-old embryo can be just 1cm from head to foot, so it’s difficult to dissect tissue from it. They may just homogenise the whole embryo.” That’s a polite way of saying that the aborted babies could have been liquidised.

Dr Minger was especially troubled that as well as offering unproven therapy to patients with degenerative diseases – at up to Â£10,000 a time – the clinic was running a lucrative sideline in offering stem cell treatments to reverse the effects of aging.