[RightOnTheBorder]

I’ll go out on a limb and guess these are adult stem cells since the “journalist” left out the detail.

[Steely Tom]

Well, you're right.

But these were a type of stem cells than can only be harvested from immigrants.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

From the article, "The procedure involves taking a single stem cell from an embryo and growing it into a “patch” of cells that can be transplanted into the eye."

This is the first "breakthrough" I have heard about embryonic stem cells. The rest have been from adult stem cells.