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...center was formed partially in response to the Bush administration’s more restrictive policy on federal funding for stem cell research, in the hopes that Harvard could solicit private support instead...
News of the new institute came not long after Harvard took a hit in February, when two South Korean researchers announced that they had taken therapeutic cloning to a whole new level by extracting a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo...
...competitors,” said David T. Scadden, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Regenerative Medicine and Technology and co-director of the institute. “Partly what has driven the U.S. research machine is U.S. government funding. Because scientists’ engagement in [stem cell research] is highly restricted, there has been a chill in this field, and we hope this effort will partly compensate for that by providing monetary resources for scientists...
...Stem Cell Institute intends to unite a wide range of professional fields within the University, such as lab science, business and medicine, to develop ethically responsible stem cell therapies with a focus on degenerative diseases...
During the year, the science and technology task force investigated 70 proposals for interdisciplinary work in Allston suggested by faculty, recommending 13 “promising areas of inquiry”: stem cell research, innovative computing, engineering and applied science, origins of life, quantum science, systems neuroscience, systems biology, chemical biology, global health, microbial science, environmental science, clinical research and collaborative science...