TagsTagsABC News calls this a "victory for the Obama administration," but in truth it's a major victory for US science in the struggle against the powerful forces of religious fundamentalism, as a federal appeals court strikes down a lower court's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. In ...
A federal judge's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research has been lifted by an appeals court. This is excellent news for American science; the opposition to embryonic stem-cell research has been fueled almost entirely by the irrational, anti-science religious right, and it's long past time to get their boots ...
While I supported the Bush administration’s foreign policies for the most part, one of the biggest disagreements I had with them was their blatant bias against scientific research; and one of the best examples of that bias was their opposition to stem cell research, an opposition based entirely on irrational ...
Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Medicine, Health, Religious Right
Barack Obama told Pope Benedict today that he wants to reduce abortions in the US. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict on Friday that he would do everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Vatican said. Obama and Benedict held private ...
Barack Obama, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Abortion, Stem Cells
Charles Krauthammer has been in favor of relaxing Bush administration limits on funding embryonic stem cell research, but he’s disturbed at the way Obama did it: President Obama and Stem Cells — Science Fiction. President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos ...
President Obama has ended the Bush administration’s limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ending Bush-era limits on using federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research. Obama was signing an executive order Monday, with scientists at his side. He said “medical miracles ...
Wired Magazine has their Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007. My favorite: 2. Chimpanzees Make Spears for Hunting Two anthropologists watched in mixed amazement and horror as several female chimpanzees crafted spears and used them to somewhat brutally hunt smaller mammals. Following a troop of the primates in a Senegalese savanna, ...
Scientists have done an end run around the ethical problems of stem cell research: Stem cells without embryos: skin cells transformed. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells ...