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• The Washington Times says stem cell research funding is turning toward adult (instead of embryonic) stem cells, even in traditionally liberal states:
  

  “Money talks,” said Gene Tarne, author of papers for the Charlotte Lozier Institute that find that the bulk of stem cell funding grants in California and Maryland are moving toward “ethical” research that doesn’t use human embryos.

  “The shift looks like a sea change from when state funding strongly favored research from embryonic stem cells over “adult” stem cells, which are taken from the placenta, umbilical cord and some mature tissues and do not kill human embryos.”…

  [A] Kansas stem cell research center that, by law, won’t use stem cells culled from human embryos also is taking off….

  The center… is “a visionary move” to “support science that can actually lead to a lot of new therapies and potentially change the face of medicine,” said Dr. Buddhadeb Dawn, director of the center, which is housed at the University of Kansas Medical Center….

  Excluding embryonic stem cell research is not an impediment, Dr. Dawn said. “Adult stem cells are the ones that have been shown to be effective for patient treatment,” he said.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Democratic leaders say the Republicans’ proposed one-week Continuing Resolution will be rejected because of the prohibition to DC abortion funding and the budget cuts. Here’s a new one: “Diseased goo” is how Darrell Dawsey describes human embryos with genetic diseases who were recently killed at the University of […]

Backdrop: On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama issued an statement banning federal funding of new human embryo stem cell lines. As an important aside, Obama’s last action in his EO was (click to enlarge)…

First I’ll renote that embryonic stems cells can’t be controlled and are well-known to cause tumors. Latest case in point, from the Washington Post article yesterday that strongly implied escr hangs in the balance pending Barack Obama’s blessing. Not true. Researchers have always been free to dissect away with private funds. Then there’s this little […]

by an article on how researchers in Australia are hoping to get permission to attempt to create cloned human embryos. To a certain extent, I feel sorry for the reporter whom Professor Richard Boyd seemed intent on misleading. The article claims they want to clone “human embryo cells” and not the reality that they’re trying […]