Word: stemming
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...America these days, there is no counter culture. The post-modern consumerist culture expands to contain everything - nothing is counter-cultural because nothing is outside the culture. There is no art that shocks. No ideas that repel. Scientists who want to create embryos for stem-cell research are far more daring and revolutionary than any modern artist...
...JUST USE EXISTING STEM LINES...
Last week, before both sides in this debate had fully dug in their heels, there was talk of a compromise. Since some colonies of stem cells already exist, why not permit funding of research on these cells only? (After all, the embryos had already been destroyed.) Bush adviser Karl Rove, below left, was searching for a way to satisfy Catholics without putting a lid on research. But religious conservatives quickly countered that such a compromise would still mean profiting from the killing of human embryos--and thus propagating a "culture of death." And scientists weren't satisfied either. They...
...JUST USE ADULT STEM CELLS...
Republican Senator Sam Brownback, below left, believes a "wonderful" compromise for Bush would be to increase greatly funding for research on adult stem cells, which are harvested from bone marrow and brain tissue and have begun to show some of the same potential as those derived from embryos. But scientists aren't so sure. It's not yet clear whether adult stem cells will prove as versatile as embryonic ones, particularly in developing cures for Parkinson's disease and diabetes. Researchers also note that it is more difficult to produce large quantities of adult stem cells, and fear they...