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Opinion - Biotechnology
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Biotech: what to expect.
Over the past fifteen years, the pro-life movement has succeeded in enacting some modest limitations on embryo--destructive research. Passage of these depended heavily on Republican control of the Congress, and their defense in the past eight years depended heavily on a Republican president willing to use his veto pen. The new political environment puts all of these achievements at grave risk and makes further steps essentially impossible for the time being.
The crucial story of the past several years in stem-cell science has been the story of newly emerging sources of pluripotent stem cells. What began as a series of speculative proposals early this decade...See the full content of this document
