Julie with a B

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
 
Academy of Sciences, guidelines for stem cell research
An article today in the NY Times discusses guidelines for stem cell research. Normally the federal government would be doing this, however, they are stuck in denial mode.

"The academy intends its guidelines to provide a uniform system of regulation that applies to both the public and private sector, assures the public and scientists that their work is ethical, and provides continuing review of issues raised by new research. "

. . . . "The academy's guidelines are intended to bring all researchers under the same rules, while at the same time imposing limits on experiments that involve incorporating human embryonic stem cells into animals. The purpose of such experiments is not to create some nightmarish menagerie of half-human animals, but simply to test first in animals the human organs that could be grown from the embryonic stem cells. "
The rest is here.

Something they don't mention in the article, is the possibility of additional "cross-over" diseases from other species of animals.
The research has the chance to change the lives of so many people for the better.

- posted by JulieB @ 1:47 PM
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