Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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Weiss, Rick. "On Stem Cell Legislation, a Reprise with Twists." The Washington Post 11 Jan. 2007. 11 Jan. 2007 .
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Artifact 5
Somers, Terri. "Stem Cell Research No Dream for California." The Paramus Post. 1 Jan. 2007. The Paramus Post. 3 Jan. 2007 .
Artifact #4
Somers, Terri. "Asia, Europe Moving to Stake Claims in Promising Stem Cell Research Industry." The Paramus Post. 3 Jan. 2007. The Paramus Post. 3 Jan. 2007 http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20061229110232220.
This article is about how we are falling behind the rest of the world in stem cell research. In most countries with enough funds to research stem cells, it is legal to extract them. Not in the United States. Many countries have started pouring funds into research on stem cells. The UK has put in $1.3 Billion dollars into research and China is "doubling its investment". Singapore is constructing a very big biomedical research facility called "Biopolis". They have spent $400 million dollars on it so far.
Here are some of the things the article had to say about progress in various countries.
"Until November 2005, South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang was considered a leader in the field after he claimed to be the first to efficiently create embryonic stem cell lines through a complicated cloning process that no one had been able to master.
Hwang turned out to have falsified some of his studies, and his work was discredited. Researchers around the globe have had to backtrack and try to master that feat...
Singapore, with just 4 million citizens, is investing $25 million to $29 million annually in research, excluding overhead costs and infrastructure. That investment may seem wimpy compared with the $609 million the United States government spent on stem cell research last year. But because of federal funding restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, only $20 million to $40 million a year - about 6 percent at best - has been directed to that field. Money is not the sole catalyst of success. Scientists say supportive government policies that free them to concentrate on their work, national commitment and contagious scientific enthusiasm are just as important. "
Here are some questions I have.
This article is about how we are falling behind the rest of the world in stem cell research. In most countries with enough funds to research stem cells, it is legal to extract them. Not in the United States. Many countries have started pouring funds into research on stem cells. The UK has put in $1.3 Billion dollars into research and China is "doubling its investment". Singapore is constructing a very big biomedical research facility called "Biopolis". They have spent $400 million dollars on it so far.
Here are some of the things the article had to say about progress in various countries.
"Until November 2005, South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang was considered a leader in the field after he claimed to be the first to efficiently create embryonic stem cell lines through a complicated cloning process that no one had been able to master.
Hwang turned out to have falsified some of his studies, and his work was discredited. Researchers around the globe have had to backtrack and try to master that feat...
Singapore, with just 4 million citizens, is investing $25 million to $29 million annually in research, excluding overhead costs and infrastructure. That investment may seem wimpy compared with the $609 million the United States government spent on stem cell research last year. But because of federal funding restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, only $20 million to $40 million a year - about 6 percent at best - has been directed to that field. Money is not the sole catalyst of success. Scientists say supportive government policies that free them to concentrate on their work, national commitment and contagious scientific enthusiasm are just as important. "
Here are some questions I have.
- If the US is spending $609 million on stem cell research, yet only $40 million is reaching scientists, where is the other $569 billion going?
- How far will we fall behind before extraction is legalized?
- Will extraction ever be legalized?
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