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...mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign infection, the agency could halt a stem-cell procedure if it felt the human patient was at risk of getting an animal virus. The news sparked renewed calls for the President to loosen his policy and allow further harvesting from embryos, this...
...according to the Commerce Department. Analysts had expected a dip to 918,000 units, but instead the hike brought the housing number to near its March peak. That?s good news for the consumer-spending watch - while the economy waits for businesses to come out of their post-bubble fetal position, it seems our nation?s shoppers - who account for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity - may be able to keep the floor under this slowdown a while longer...
...Stem-cell production permitted only from otherwise discarded fertility-clinic embryos or from fetal cadavers...
...radical increase in federal support for research into adult stem cells, which present fewer moral problems and which might prove to be more genetically stable and controllable than fetal-derived stem cells...
...analysis from the President's chief strategist. Rove is stuck with the unenviable task of studying the science and politics of the issue and delivering a recommendation to his boss, who is poised to make a decision soon. Insiders say Rove personally leans in favor of research that uses fetal cell tissue. Politically, however, he's in favor of his boss's re-election. Polls indicate that a substantial majority of American Roman Catholics support embryonic research, but Rove fears church leaders would so fervently oppose a decision to back it that they would draw more Catholics to their side...