Editors   Breakthrough: UCLA Team Creates Nerve Cells From Skin - Bypassing Embryos   2/25/2009 10:27:00 AM    
A team from the University of California Los Angeles led by William Lowry, created the first motor neurons from artificial embryonic stem cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, which were in turn created from ordinary skin cells.

This has huge implications for the debate over the use of and need for embryonic stem cells.

Their next step is to attach their neur...