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Article: Bioethics, Bush style.(research on embryonic stem cells)(Interview)
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- The Progressive
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- May 1, 2005
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In September, a day after Massachusetts-based biotech lab Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., announced that it had coaxed embryonic stem cells into retinal cells, the company's medical director, Dr. Robert Lanza, received a visit from a uniformed police officer.
Lanza didn't know what to think. The mood in his office was tense. A few weeks earlier, a pipe bomb had exploded at another regenerative stem cell facility just a few miles down the road. Ever since President Bush banned federal funding for research on new embryonic stem cell lines in 2001, Lanza had seen financial backers shrink away as religious activists gained ground in the media, attacking researchers ...