New ethical guidelines for conducting human embryonic stem-cell research issued Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences may have little impact on scientists, but experts think they will be used by patient groups and other proponents to urge the Bush administration to relax its limitations on federal funding for the research.
The guidelines, developed by a panel convened by the NAS, seek to fill a void left by the federal government, which has not offered any regulations for stem-cell research.
Although the consensus of scientists is embryonic stem-cell research has the potential to provide cures and insights about various diseases, the research is controversial because obtaining the cells requires the destruction of human embryos ...
Since this has been a little bit of a "hot button" topic on OptiBoard, I thought that this might make an interesting post. The article is on kind of a "cool" website (IMO). Here's a link to the complete article -- only about a page long:
http://www.terradaily.com/news/life-05zb.html
And here's a link to a recent OptiBoard thread "Stem Cell Research":
http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10874
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