Word: melton
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Thanks to the efforts of private donors, however, U.S. research into the creation of new stem cell lines has continued—albeit at a reduced pace. Harvard, to its credit, has led this push. In March, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton made 17 new stem cell lines freely available for private use. And last week, Harvard unveiled plans for a new stem cell center aimed at coordinating the University’s research in the area. Funded privately to circumvent government restrictions, the center will help to quicken the pace of American stem cell research...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton, co-director with Scadden, said the institute would examine the ethical issues surrounding stem cell research...
...This work is controversial, and we don’t plan to sidestep that controversy,” Melton said...
...recent editorial by Mark A. Adomanis about the ethics of therapeutic cloning at Harvard is terribly misinformed (Op-Ed, “Forging Ahead Blindly With Cloning,” March 15). First and foremost, he criticizes Harvard and Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton specifically, for “[showing] no reluctance to shelve ethical considerations to be at the forefront of stem cell research.” Furthermore, he claims that, “[Harvard] is already confident in its answers to moral questions—namely, that such questions...
...contrary, after having taken a course in stem cell biology and cloning from Melton, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, earlier this year (Molecular and Cellular Biology 125, “Stem Cells and Cloning”), I can attest to his careful and thoughtful contemplation of the matter. In fact, the course’s abstract in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Courses of Instruction specifically states that “ethical and political considerations will not be ignored.” Indeed, in lieu of lecture one day, there was an hour...