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The unresolved litigation has unnerved investors and doomed attempts to raise money through the public-bond sale that would provide the expected $3 billion. Alternatively, the institute tried to float bond anticipation notes to buyers who would get refunds from the eventual sales of the bonds. But because of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brawl in California | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

Back and forth it goes, the politics driving the science, the science pushing back. Stem-cell research has joined global warming and evolution science as fields in which the very facts are put to a vote, a public spectacle in which data wrestle dogma. Scientists who are having surprising success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

For scientists who choose to work with the approved "presidential" lines, the funding comes wrapped in frustration. Today there are only 21 viable lines, which limits genetic diversity. They are old, so they don't grow very well, and were cultured using methods that are outdated. What's more, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

In the wake of Bush's original order, Harvard decided to use private funding to develop about 100 new cell lines from fertility-clinic embryos, which it shares with researchers around the world. Scientists, desperate for variety, snap them up. "Not all embryonic-stem-cell lines are created equal," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

When human trials finally begin, there's no method for precisely determining whether the transplanted stem cells are functioning correctly. "If we transplanted cells to regenerate a pancreas," says Owen Witte, director of UCLA's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, "we can measure in your blood if you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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