Stem Cell Drama

by Jennifer Lahl, CBC President on March 17, 2009


I have been absolutely slammed since January 20. Media calls, radio interviews, Senate testimony in Atlanta, and way too much travel. So, needless to say, I’m behind in posting on The Human Future. A little bit of catch up on all the news to date as the Obama Stem Cell Drama unfolds.

An editorial in the New York Times: The Rules on Stem Cells

No surprises here that the rush to fund embryonic stem cell research will not payoff (if at all) for years: Stem Cell Payoff Wait’s Decades Not Days

This lab in Texas is ‘too busy’ working on adult stem cells to work on embryonic stem cells in this article: Obama opens up stem cell work

And Geron, poised to begin the first human clinical trial using embryonic stem cells is warned by doctors that their ‘
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While others rightly warn that Obama’s executive order ignores the advances in stem cell science and his decision is behind the Cell Curve.

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