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Harvard in particular has been trying to advance stem cell research recently—creating its Stem Cell Institute last year, which circumvented Bush administration regulations on newly-created stem cells by using independent funds for its experiments. Douglas A. Melton??Cabot professor of the natural sciences and co-director of the Stem Cell Institute—has been outspoken in lobbying for stem cell studies both in Boston and in Washington...
...interim, a nine-person executive committee—chaired by Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton??oversaw the life sciences...
...last week, Melton??who in a November interview said he had only agreed to chair the executive committee for one year, as an interim measure—was named chair of the life sciences council, which will function as a life sciences dean by committee...
...Melton??s appointment and the committee’s formation resolves the major outstanding issue facing FAS sciences...
While the embryonic cells, unique in their biological simplicity, are particularly useful to scientists, they have raised a number of bioethical and religious concerns. Anyone who experiments with Melton??s cells will have to do so without government funding—and will have to combat fierce ethical contestation as well. “It’s been extraordinary to watch the science progressing in the face of enormous political obstacles,” Rajagopal wrote...