Word: stemming
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...referenced his own children, both of whom have juvenile-onset diabetes, in arguing for the necessity of developing stem cell therapies...
Melton first testified before a U.S. Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee on Jan. 10, 1999 on behalf of stem cell research, acting as a volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International...
...here today because my seven-year-old son, Sam, has had Type I diabetes since he was six months old,” he said in the hearings, later adding, “The opportunities presented by human stem cell research offer us the promise of significant advances—and perhaps a cure—for diabetes...
Melton has often reiterated that he wants the U.S. to loosen restrictions on how federal funds can be distributed—arguing that the ostensible license to conduct stem cell research is useless unless the government backs scientists financially...
...inauguration of the HSCI in April 2004, Summers said that the U.S. government was mistaken in its conservative stance on stem cell research...