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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject3/8/2002 11:49:14 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Canada and UK move ahead on Stem Cell Research.

That makes: Canada, UK, China, Japan, etc., etc., that are all moving ahead - so far - to glean medical advances from stem cell development.

The UK has been quite clear in it's intention to draw medical researchers away from the US, and promote the growth of it's own biotechnology industry.

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STEM CELL RESEARCH: Canada Gives OK for New Cell Lines (p. 1816)
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Wayne Kondro and Constance Holden

OTTAWA--Canadian and U.K. scientists have gotten the green light to proceed with human embryonic stem cell research. Researchers may derive new lines of stem cells from embryos left over from fertility treatments or tissue from aborted fetuses under guidelines announced Monday by the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research. And last week the U.K. Medical Research Council issued its first two licenses to researchers wishing to derive cell lines.

Full story at sciencemag.org
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