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Six Institutions to Focus on Stem Cells (Jennifer Chan @ USC News)
"Research institutions across Southern California have joined forces to advance stem cell research by establishing the Southern California Stem Cell Scientific Collaboration (SC3)."
stem-cell  United-States  California 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Suddenly, Connecticut Is Stem Cell Central (Thomas Kaplan, Times-News)
"With state money, researchers have opened the central labs where new stem cell lines can be cultivated. In states w/o public financing, scientists have no way to pay for research on new lines, and that has drawn several sought-after researchers to CT."
stem-cell  United-States  Connecticut 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Nebraska state panel looks at stem cell research (Rick Ruggles, Omaha World-Herald)
"A legislative committee sought this morning to understand from various experts the controversial topics of stem cell research and cloning. Close to 100 people attended, including legislators, proponents, opponents and students."
stem-cell  embryo-policy  reproductive-cloning  United-States  Nebraska 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem cell, property tax proposals rejected by voters (New Jersey Star-Ledger)
"New Jersey voters rejected a proposal for the state to borrow $450 million to provide grants for stem cell research. With 95 percent of precincts reporting, the "no" votes were... about 53 percent, to... about 47 percent in favor."
stem-cell  United-States  New-Jersey 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
A patchwork quilt of funding (Sarah Webb, Nature)
"To bypass federal restrictions, academic institutions have built new labs and purchased duplicate equipment... Researchers wanting to work with newly derived hES cells are turning to private funders and state initiatives to support their research."
stem-cell  United-States 
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Officials from across the nation meet to foster stem-cell research (Stephen Smith, Boston Globe)
"As the pace of stem-cell research hastens, a patchwork of regulations has sprung up. What's legal in one state might not be in another,...differences in laws could impede research and potentially put researchers in legal jeopardy."
stem-cell  United-States 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Health authorities approve stem cell rules (Stephen Smith, Boston Globe)
"Public health regulators today reversed a controversial limit on stem cell research that was imposed during the administration of former Gov. Romney and that led scientists to fear criminal penalties if they conducted certain kinds of lab work."
stem-cell  United-States  Massachusetts 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Corzine pushes for stem cell funds (Bob Groves, North Jersey Record)
"The bonds would provide $45 mil per yr for 10 yrs, beginning in 2008... The Tuesday groundbreaking was for the $150 mil Stem Cell Institute, one of several facilities funded by an earlier and unrelated $270 mil appropriation by the state Legislature."
stem-cell  United-States  New-Jersey 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Ground broken for groundbreaking stem-cell site (Christine Sparta, Home News Tribune)
"The new facility will take up five floors of an 18-story tower on Little Albany Street in New Brunswick. Three floors will be devoted to research laboratories. The Stem Cell Institute will be a joint Rutgers University/UMDNJ operation."
stem-cell  United-States  New-Jersey 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Spending Bill Headed to Conference, and Likely Bush Veto, After Senate Passage (Alex Wayne, Congressional Quarterly)
"The bill’s support was bolstered after Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee, removed language that would have expanded eSC research. ... [Harkin and Specter are both supporters of eSC research]"
stem-cell  United-States 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Louisiana: children locked in freezers (The Stem Cell)
"a handful of states with laws on their books from the 1970’s and early 1980’s, written in fearful reaction to Roe v. Wade... In Louisiana, the “embryo statutes”... [give] 2-4 day old [blastocysts] ... the same rights and interests as children."
stem-cell  abortion  embryo-policy  United-States  Louisiana 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
NIH director publicly opposes Bush position on embryonic stem cell research (blog.bioethics.net)
"Dr. Zerhouni: Yes. Unfortunately, the scientific foundation of stem cell research is sometimes lost in the societal, moral, and ethical battle between hype and hope. But our job at NIH is to push the science forward to serve our patients."
stem-cell  United-States 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Lawyer Represents Unborn Embryo in Federal Court Tuesday (Kristen Philipkoski, Wired)
"A Maryland lawyer has filed a lawsuit representing... an unborn embryo [blastocyst, actually], against Robert Klein, chairman of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state-run $3 billion stem cell research funding agency."
stem-cell  abortion  embryo-policy  United-States  California 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Zoroastrian conservatives to G.O.P.: Drop dead! (Ted Rall)
"We're flexible. We'd settle for a Mazdaist. But Romney and McCain don't even have a policy on the Angra Mainyu threat!"
humor  United-States  campaigning 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Huckabee likens abortion to a holocaust (CNN)
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce,... we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion"
abortion  United-States 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem Cells Place Current Impasses In Perspective (New West Notes)
stem-cell  United-States  California 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Estranged Bedfellows (Sam Berger, Shira Saperstein, Center for American Progress)
"Merck quietly lobbied conservative groups to rein in their opposition. ... After the vaccine was approved, however, Merck immediately began pushing for state legislatures to mandate it, contrary to the regular... practice"
policy-production  political-organization  United-States 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem cell supporters say ballot language ‘shocking’ (Betsy Taylor, AP)
"A proposed state ballot measure to restrict embryonic stem cell research is flawed because its definition of “human” would exclude people with common genetic abnormalities like Down syndrome, critics said Monday."
stem-cell  United-States  Missouri 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem cell research opponents launch cloning ban effort (Jason Rosenbaum, Columbia Tribune)
"Missouri voters narrowly approved the amendment to the state’s constitution that barred the legislature from curtailing any stem cell research allowed by federal law. Amendment 2 also protected... somatic cell nuclear transfer"
stem-cell  United-States  Missouri 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Mo' News From MO (Michael Rugnetta, Center for American Progress)
"CWC was outraged by Secretary Carnahan’s statement because it does not intend to repeal the current ban on human reproductive cloning; it wants to add to it by banning research cloning as well."
stem-cell  United-States  Missouri 
october 2007 by kellyramsey
Brownback Splits the Difference On Stem Cell Research (Alex Wayne, Congressional Quarterly)
"Sen. Sam Brownback recently voted in committee against... a provision that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research... But he did get a $500,000 earmark added to the bill for the Midwest Institute for Comparative Stem Cell Biology."
stem-cell  United-States 
july 2007 by kellyramsey
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Spending Bill That Would Expand Federal Funding For Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Medical News Today)
"The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 26-3 to approve the fiscal year 2008 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill, which includes a provision that would expand the number of human embryonic stem cell lines eligible for federal funding,"
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
CIRM Legislation Finished for 2007 (David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report)
"A spokesman for Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, lead author on SB771, said the measure was put off to allow the stem cell agency to finish its regulations for IP, the vehicle for determining how to split up potential largess from stem call products."
stem-cell  patents  United-States  California 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem cell research bill dies on Oregon House floor (Julia Silverman, AP)
"The entire Republican caucus in the House voted against the bill, along with a single Democrat, Rep. Betty Komp of Woodburn, who represents a heavily Catholic district."
stem-cell  United-States  Oregon 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Trenton clears $450M stem cell bond bill (Dunstan McNichol, Newark Star-Ledger)
"The bill, which passed the Senate 31-3 and was approved 50-27 in the Assembly, authorizes the state to seek voter approval in November on a $450 million bond referendum to fund stem cell research grants. The grants would be distributed over 10 years."
stem-cell  United-States  New-Jersey 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Embryonic stem cell research divides states (Christine Vestal, Stateline)
"Seven states... are providing seed money, ... Six other states... ban the research. ... Three states... have affirmed its legality but do not offer funding. ... Most states steer clear of it altogether."
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Committee OKs bill for embryonic stem cell research (Associated Press)
"A state House committee gave its blessing Wednesday to a bill that would allow research on stem cells from embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization in North Carolina and set aside $10 million to fund it."
stem-cell  United-States  North-Carolina 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Lawmakers to Weigh $450M Stem Cell Research Plan (Associated Press)
"the plan to provide research grants, if approved, could put New Jersey behind only California in state-funded stem cell research money."
stem-cell  United-States  New-Jersey 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
The Politics of Stem Cell Research (@ YouTube)
Jerry Zucker's stem cell op/ed video, critiquing President Bush's stance on discarded IVF embryos and embryonic stem cell research
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
BostonNOW: Massachusetts losing ground in stem cell race (Scott Wachtler, BostonNOW)
"If Massachusetts doesn't act "immediately to create nimble funding mechanisms," said one Harvard Medical School professor yesterday, the commonwealth will lose its ability to remain competitive in the realm of stem cell research."
stem-cell  biotechnology  United-States  Massachusetts 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
opened in November 2000; facility in Kansas City, MO; "accommodates twenty three independent research programs and nearly 380 members, including approximately 100 postdoctoral research associates and graduate students."
stem-cell  United-States  Missouri  biotechnology 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Missouri is missing out on stem-cell research (editorial @ The Kansas City Star)
"Eggan, turned down a job offer several years ago from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Eggan said he loved the Stowers’ facility and mission, but he couldn’t risk setting up a lab in a state where politicians threatened to criminalize"
stem-cell  United-States  Missouri 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Americans Rate the Morality of 16 Social Issues (Gallup Poll)
"Since 2002, Americans have grown more accepting of medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos. The percentage considering this morally acceptable has gradually increased from 52% to 64%."
stem-cell  United-States  public-opinion 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Reform Jewish Movement Applauds House Passage of Bill Advancing Embryonic Stem Cell Research (press release)
"We call on President Bush to demonstrate leadership by signing this bill into law. Barring such action, we call on members of both the House and Senate to override a presidential veto and bring hope to millions of Americans."
stem-cell  United-States  religion 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
House Votes to Expand Stem Cell Research (Jeff Zeleny, New York Times)
"The House gave final Congressional approval on Thurs to legislation aimed at easing restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research, but Democratic leaders in both chambers conceded they were short of the votes neededto override a veto"
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Vulnerable Newcomers Stray from Democrats' Party Line (Greg Giroux, Congressional Quarterly)
"Some of the dozen Democratic freshmen with the lowest party unity scores in 2007 lean to the right on some social issues. ... 3 of them joined just 13 other House Democrats in voting against legislation to promote embryonic stem cell research."
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
House rejects bill to ban human cloning (Thomas Ferraro, Reuters)
"Mostly Rep. lawmakers defeated a Dem. bid on Wed. to outlaw [human cloning], concurring with the White House that the effort was flawed and would still permit destruction of life because it would allow embryos to be created for stem-cell research."
stem-cell  United-States  reproductive-cloning 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
A Long, Uncertain Path for New Cell Technique (Andrew Pollack, New York Times)
"new approach for producing embryonic stem cells faces considerable hurdles before it can be used to develop medical treatments... genetically altering cells, which could introduce new safety risks and make it harder to obtain regulatory approval."
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem Cell Battle Part of DeGette's Diabetes Crusade (Lois Romano @ Washington Post)
"DeGette become an outspoken advocate for easing restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. Today she will be on the House floor, managing her bill, which is scheduled for a vote and which Democrats expect will pass."
stem-cell  United-States  Colorado 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Giving Stem Cells the Chance to Revolutionize Medicine (Center for American Progress)
"Increased funding for embryonic stem cell research brings the promise of finding cures and treatment for life-threatening diseases and conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injury, and heart disease."
stem-cell  United-States  policy-production  public-opinion 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem cell program doles out $50 million (Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle)
"California's stem cell program announced new grants Tuesday worth about $50.5 million, the first awards for constructing laboratory facilities intended to help carry out a $3 billion research initiative under Proposition 71."
stem-cell  United-States  California 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Stem cells ready to spread (Jeff Cox, CNN)
"With the federal restrictions in place, the money that will be distributed from California's Proposition 71 is being seen by analysts and the biotech industry as a moment that will permanently change industry, science and medicine."
stem-cell  biotechnology  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Poll Reveals Stark Liberal-Conservative Gap on Morality of Sexual Issues (Audrey Barrick, Christian Post)
"Attitudes towards the issues has not changed much since 2001 or 2002, according to the Gallup report, but more Americans are finding medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos ... morally acceptable."
stem-cell  United-States  public-opinion 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
West Virginia Dems' Effort to Nip GOP Gains Starts With House Seat (Greg Giroux, Congressional Quarterly)
"Capito sided with Republicans 82 percent of the time — the 28th lowest “party unity” score among the 201 House Republicans. She voted to increase the federal minimum wage and promote embryonic stem cell research."
stem-cell  United-States  campaigning 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
How to Further Stem Cell Research (Center for American Progress)
"But since it doesn’t look like Bush is willing to budge, we should start thinking seriously about how to keep the science advancing now. Jonathan Moreno and Sam Berger of CAP’s Progressive Bioethics Initiative make these suggestions:"
stem-cell  United-States  policy-production 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Immigration, Stem Cell Measures On Tap (National Journal)
"In the House, lawmakers are poised revisit the stem cell debate Thursday by taking up a Senate-passed measure that would lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research."
stem-cell  United-States 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Exclusive: Interview With Sam Brownback on Stem Cell Research (Steven Ertelt, LifeNews)
Brownback: "The embryo is a young human life. Biologically we know that. It is a living member of the human species. We should stand for that life and fight for that life. We should not research on it or destroy it."
stem-cell  United-States  campaigning 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Best hope lies in privately funded stem cell research (Sigrid Fry-Revere, Cato Institute @ Chicago Sun-Times)
stem-cell  United-States  California  Missouri  policy-production 
april 2007 by kellyramsey

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