'Milestone' stem cell advance reported

• Story Highlights
• Scientists: Embryonic stem cell equivalents created from adult human skin cells
  
• Avoids ethical, political, practical obstacles of cloning embryos to make stem cells
  
• Expert: "Tremendous scientific milestone"; likened to Wright Brothers' first plane
  
• Technique creates cancer risk; scientists say it can be avoided in the future
  
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