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an independent team of operatives who work together in a CELLULAR MANUFACTURING production environment.

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Well, you have to give the Washington Post's editorial lauding the supposedly now-realized "potential" of embryonic stem cells, this much: they did spell the most prominent author's name correctly.

Washington Post editorial hypes embryonic stem cells again, caught up in latest "big payoff"

Creating embryonic stem cells by nuclear transfer in humans, he says, is "the next major technological advance since Dolly.

Human cloning advance raises personalized medicine hopes: embryonic stem cells made with nuclear transfer method

Scientists cited four main reasons for their problems accessing human embryonic stem cell lines: difficulty obtaining material transfer agreements, failure to acquire research approval from internal institutional oversight committees, cell line owners that were unwilling to share and federal policy considerations.

Forty percent of scientists report delays in obtaining human embryonic stem cells

However, the recent injunction came about after the court decided that two researchers who work with adult stem cells could challenge the guidelines because funding of embryonic stem cell research was harming their chances for receiving federal funds for adult stem cells.

Embryonic stem cell research caught in limbo

Very often embryonic stem cells develop into different cells to those required.

Letter: YOUR SHOUT - An alternative cell research

Everyone should be thrilled that scientists may have discovered a technique that will end the unproductive religious objections to embryonic stem cell research.

A triumph of science

Proposition 71 backers, he says, ``hounded on us'' the notion that embryonic stem cell research was the medically most promising - even though adult stem cells have yield far better results.

STEM CELL RESEARCH PROMISES MADE, BUT NO RESULTS

Scientists at the centers also will work on specific pilot projects to advance fundamental knowledge of human embryonic stem cell properties and functions.

NIGMS providing $9 million to three Exploratory Centers for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Osaka National Hospital was the only hospital supplying embryonic stem cells to regenerative medicine institutions in Japan.

Editor's notebook

At council meetings, I consistently sensed resistance to presenting human embryonic stem cell research in a way that would acknowledge the scientific, experimentally verified realities," Blackburn, one of two cell biologists on the commission, wrote in an article that appeared in The Washington Post.

Bioethics, Bush style

Second, the federal government will not fund research that would establish any further undifferentiated embryonic stem cell lines, nor research into any other uses of human egg cells.

Stem cells, therapeutic cloning, and the soul

I am excited about the potential of stem-cell therapies, but recent demands that the federal government fund research on embryonic stem cells frighten me.

Embryonic stem cells: the end doesn't justify the means: Stem-cell research holds great promise for treating many diseases. But such promise, argues Jacqueline Lee, can never justify the destruction of human life in the process. (sounding board)