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Stem cells may soon help women who have undergone a mastectomy following breast cancer. Hopefully it can help create connections between brain cells just as quickly.

Hopefully the Bush Administration will change its policy. This debate will be explored on 60 Minutes this weekend. "To me it means that the president’s policy is hypocritical and deceptive," says biotehicist Art Caplan. "It is not a secret that embryos are destroyed at infertility clinics. Caplan refers to couples who have decided they are finished having children or trying to conceive through in vitro fertilization who tell their clinics to destroy their unused embryos. “So we have a policy that says, ‘Can’t destroy them for research, I, as president, can’t abide by it,’” says Caplan. “[But] every day a clinic somewhere destroys one.” Caplan says keeping thousands of surplus embryos frozen is not much different than destroying them outright .

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