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Bush Letter Sees Promise of Stem Cells
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| Contributor | User 490 |
| Last Edited | User 490 May 16, 2004 02:09am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, May 16, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Bush administration has acknowledged that additional lines, or colonies, of embryonic stem cells could speed scientific research, a statement that advocates for patients say could mark the first step toward easing limits on taxpayer financing for the studies.
The acknowledgment was tucked into a carefully worded letter sent on Friday by Dr. Elias Zerhouni, the director of the National Institutes of Health, to 206 members of Congress who are pressing President Bush to alter his stem cell policy.
In the letter, Dr. Zerhouni reiterated the president's stand that tax dollars not be used to "sanction or encourage further destruction of human embryos." But he also wrote, "It is also fair to say that from a purely scientific perspective more cell lines may well speed some areas" of research.
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