Government (Policy)

U.S. Senate Ponders "Stem Cell" Technology

Published in Blood Weekly, December 14th, 1998

Researchers who created controversy by growing human stem cells asked the U.S. Congress to allow federal funding of such work, saying it might provide a cure for Parkinson's disease within a few years.

But they added the breakthroughs may never be developed to their full potential if Congress decides that current laws forbid such funding.

"The number of diseases that can be treated will increase exponentially [with federal funding]," Dr. James Thomson, University of Wisconsin, who led one of the teams that has grown the stem cells, told a Senate panel. "The current ban in the U.S. on the use of federal funding for human embryo research discourages...

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