Harvard gives access to new stem cell lines

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Harvard researchers are giving scientists free access to 17 new human embryonic stem cell lines that were developed without government money, the latest sign that U.S. scientists are forging ahead with the controversial research that the Bush administration has tried to limit.

“I think that the field needs to be stimulated and this is an excellent way of stimulating the field,” said Dr. Leonard Zon, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and a professor of pediatrics at Harvard’s Children’s Hospital Boston.

Zon, who was not involved in the project, said the new stem cell lines not only double the number available to scientists, but are more user-friendly than the 15 lines eligible for federal research dollars.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4438107/

[aquart]

1. Does Idiot George know?

[Joanne98]

2. Will Bush make it another wedge issue?

The fundies are against it.

[KissMyAsscroft]

3. Yeah, fundies are against it...

until they have a terminal illness and they want a cure.