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...passage of this bill marked a major victory for Harvard scientists and administrators, who in the face of ethical and political challenges have stubbornly persisted in promoting and developing stem cell research across the University...
Gathering a group of top-notch researchers, the University started the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) one year ago in the hope of creating revolutionary medical treatments through therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research in a centralized facility. Since then, the HSCI has garnered over $30 million in private funding...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers has thrown his full weight behind the HSCI, telling an audience at the Harvard Club of Washington this year that stem cells and the “revolution in the life sciences” offer Harvard “a historic opportunity.” He compared today’s Boston to Renaissance Florence, stating that the biological sciences hold the possibility of developing “a center of central intellectual activity of mankind” in the greater Boston area...
...Recent history suggests that human embryonic stem cell research, once it becomes more prevalent, will become almost universally accepted,” he wrote, and compared it to the achievements of other doctors whose work had been considered “sacrilegious” by their contemporaries—such as the development of DNA research, which Summers wrote had been decried at first, but soon became a standard part of medicine and biology...
...addition to Summers’ efforts, Harvard scientists have also supported the political cause of stem cell research. Many lobbied and testified in support of the Travaglini bill before members of the Mass. state legislature—a fact which Travaglini’s office says was key to overturning Romney’s veto by a wide margin...