Category Archives: Stem Cells/Cloning

INJUNCTION BARRING ESC RESEARCH FUNDING APPEALED

The Justice Department has appealed the injunction levied by Judge Lamberth of the D.C. District Court that would negate President Obama’s executive order, issued in 2009, that repealed President Bush’s order of 2001, barring Federal funding of research on embryonic … Continue reading

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Court Blocks Obama’s Stem Cell Order

In December of 2009, I argued that President Obama’s Executive Order 13505, that lifted President Bush’s 2001 Order banning the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research, should be a Top Biotech Story of 2009. The Bush … Continue reading

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ISC Patent On Making Human Stem Cells Advances Cloning Technology

  sale viagra without prescription Apart from being praised as an ethical work-around to the problems of destroying early-stage human embryos—often about to be discarded as surplusage by fertility clinics — to obtain human pluripotent stem cells, Revazova et al. … Continue reading

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VENTER GROUP LABELS SYNTHETIC LIFE “PAT. PENDING”

In the May 20th issue of Science Express, a group led by Daniel Gibson, Hamilton Smith and  J. Craig Venter published an article that got the full attention of scientists, bioethicists and IP attorneys worldwide: “Creation of a Bacterial Cell … Continue reading

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