In the run-up to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on April 5, the biotechnology industry has undertaken a major campaign to win public support for both destructive human embryo experimentation and embryonic stem cell research.The attraction of stem cells is that they develop into other cell types (e.g. nerve, heart, liver), and thus provide a potential method of treatment of a range of medical conditions until now regarded as incurable, such as spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s…