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They say you always remember your first, and just in case he doesn't, Congress is making sure President Bush doesn't forget his veto of embryonic stem cell research...
...This thorny scientific and moral quandary was the subject of his first nationally televised address, back in August 2001, when he imposed a ban on future federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The issue also triggered his first veto, as he scuttled a bill last summer that would have eased that ban. And while Congress usually gets the message on presidential vetoes - no means no - a nearly identical embryonic stem cell bill that has passed the Senate sailed through the House Thursday, setting up yet another opportunity for the President to veto a measure that is increasingly popular both...
...Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would allow federal funds, the financial lifeblood of scientists and laboratories, to flow to embryonic stem cell research. The bill's proponents claim that these by-products of in-vitro fertilization may be able to help cure a wide host of diseases, including juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's (recall the hubbub over the stem cell ads that aired during last year's Senate race in Missouri starring Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's). Those opposed, including many on the right, regard it as the destruction of early human life. Others...
...Plans for the new facility call for a open labs that will offer shared reserach space for affiliates of the stem cell institue in order to promote on-site collaboration between scientists, according to Scadden...
...site will house some of the existing faculty, as well as a significant number of new hires. Scadden said it will be the “central home,” but not the “exclusive” one, of stem cell researchers in the area...