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Currently, Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Markus Meister represents the nascent systems neuroscience initiative, which Washington University professors Joshua R. Sanes and Jeffrey W. Litchman will direct next year. Melton represents the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which he began to co-direct with Associate Professor of Medicine David T. Scadden this year. But the Microbial Sciences Initiative, which Kirby approved just two weeks ago, is unrepresented...
...this line of research, which involves potential cures for life-threatening diseases, pace matters. Stem cell research may be the key to understanding and treating many currently untreatable maladies like Lou Gehrig’s disease, diabetes and spinal cord injuries. Harvard’s vision—and decision to forge ahead despite short-sighted federal restrictions—is good for the University and good for humanity...
...Massachusetts legislature recently stripped a provision declaring the state’s support for stem cell research from an economic stimulus bill passed last fall. Pro-life groups and lobbyists for the Catholic Church engineered the move—falsely equating therapeutic cloning with abortion...
...therapeutic cloning, which destroys embryos consisting of no more than a few cells, is a fundamentally different process from abortion. Therapeutic cloning happens in the lab, not in the womb. Whereas opponents of stem cell research see life in a few cells smeared in a petri dish, we see the millions of human lives which will be saved through stem cell treatments—even if these treatments only live up to the most conservative hopes of researchers...
Government, be it state or federal, should not impede the vast medical advances stem cell research promises. Thankfully, federal funding restrictions have not stopped the creation of new stem cell lines entirely. The Bush administration should recognize the ineffectiveness of its regulations on stem cell research and open up government grants to all, and the Massachusetts legislature should jump at the chance to ensure that this state, with its wealth of academic institutions, remains at the center of a medical revolution. Harvard and other private American research institutions have shown the vision; it’s time for America?...