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Stem-Cell Research Funding Institute Is Shuttered
An anonymous reader writes "The National Institutes of Health, the top funder of biomedical research in the U.S., has closed a program designed to bring induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) from the lab to the clinic. It has made no public mention of the closure, but the website has been deleted and Nature News reports that the center director, Mahendra Rao, resigned his post in frustration after the program allocated funds to only one clinical trial in its last round of funding."
Why does it matter? It's not as if the Repugs were supporting this at any point. It's idiots like you that are the cancer killing this country. Go eat shit and die.
My gut feeling is that you should be saying 'fuck religion.' The main reason stem cells have been getting such a hard time being researched has to do with a bunch of bible thumpers that think it goes against God's law.
Makes good research but I wonder if it could ever by economically viable. Maybe someone can enlighten me and explain otherwise.
I imagine if it ever hit mainstream with usage on a public daily basis, you'd need millions of embryos, perhaps even every day? What? Would women be expected to line up for embryo drives like we have blood drives today?