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Massachusetts will soon join New Jersey and California as the third state to explicitly support embryonic stem cell research. This is a tremendous step forward for the state, researchers, and, most importantly, people suffering from diseases not yet curable through conventional medicine. Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to lead to cures for many different diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. State legislators deserve strong praise for recognizing the need for this research and promoting public health interests over the objections of Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney and others...
People who object on moral grounds to research using human embryonic stem cells might be surprised to learn that scientists too are struggling with ethical dilemmas. In the past when a controversial new technology came along--recombinant DNA, for example--the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would set the scientific and ethical standards for research. But with embryonic stem cells (ESCs), the NIH has been hamstrung by President Bush's 2001 order allowing it to fund only research using the limited and imperfect cell lines already in existence--not exactly cutting-edge science. Relegated to a minor role...
...guidelines aren't binding but will probably be embraced by academic and commercial labs across the U.S., making collaboration easier. Foes of the research, who object that embryos are destroyed to create stem-cell lines, called the document a futile effort to bring moral clarity to an immoral field. --By Claudia Wallis
...speedometer. As part of a $125 million deal, IBM will next year start equipping tens of thousands of cars, commercial trucks and government autos with devices to alert drivers--and authorities--when vehicles are speeding. The technology, which includes a GPS and two-way communications link, is meant to stem the U.A.E.'s record of auto fatalities--38 a year per 100,000 citizens, which is more than twice that of the U.S. Privacy issues notwithstanding, with all that data government will, ostensibly, be able to better deal with congestion and plan new roads. Companies could eventually cash...
...California has had this effort to provide state money for stem cell scientists,” Hyman said. “Our answer is to have great intellectual cohesion and in that sense, shared facilities are very important...