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...advice Bush got, however, none was more important than the consultation he held on Aug. 2 with doctors and scientists from the National Institutes of Health. Weeks earlier, Bush had sent the NIH on a treasure hunt through clinics and laboratories around the world, searching for available lines of stem cells. These are cells extracted from embryos created for fertility treatments but not used to produce children. The extracted stem cells potentially can be made to grow into any cell in the human body, making them an extraordinary resource in the fight against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and other...
Melton has been the most outspoken faculty advocate for federal funding. On Tuesday, Melton wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with former Director of the NIH and President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Harold Varmus, laying out their vision for how the scientific community should go forward from Bush’s political decision...
...Post article alleges that Xu did not inform the donors of his purpose in taking the blood—a violation of the regulations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—and that he did not provide medical treatment that he had promised in exchange for the donations...
However, the model can be adapted to other countries as well, Ropeik says, and the team is currently awaiting grant money from the NIH to develop their model for other nations...
...NIH study, given to the White House Tuesday and presented Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing, was commissioned by President Bush, who is currently debating whether to extend federal research dollars to stem cell studies. The NIH researchers did not go so far as to make a recommendation, but it did emphasize the importance of keeping all avenues of inquiry, including studies using both adult and embryonic stem cells, open to scientists...