Stem Cell Recommendation
Update: Click here for Wednesday's newspaper story.
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The House Select Committee on Stem Cell Research made its recommendation to the 2007-08 General Assembly today. The bottom line:
The House Select Committee on Stem Cell Research encourages the General Assembly to enact legislation to provide ethical guidelines for the conduct of stem cell research in the State.
Click here for a MS Word file of the whole report.
That’s a far cry from recommending state funding for stem cell research, which is what Rep. Earl Jones was advocating when the committee first started. That’s still his goal – Jones says he will file a bill for state funding of stem cell research next year – but he said Tuesday that the committee needed to focus on finding information and educating legislators.
Click here to find more information on stem cells from the National Institutes of Health.
More on the committee’s recommendation will be in Wednesday’s paper.
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