An enzyme which is well known for its connection to a number of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes, now appears to play an important role in healthy brain maintenance.
Signing the Omnibus spending bill, with the Dickey-Wicker Amendment at the heart of the embryonic stem cell controversy, President Obama today renewed the law that still makes the use of federal funds for the destruction of a human embryo illegal.
Doctors, scientists, and now also institutional investors lack confidence in Geron’s highly publicized upcoming clinical trial with human embryonic stem cells.
Obama also formally rescinded President Bush’s Executive Order that advocated research into non-embryonic sources of stem cells, such as adult stem cells and iPS cells.
Adult stem cell therapy continues to yield significant improvement in patients with a variety of heart problems.
Amid great publicity, fanfare, and confusion, President Barack Obama reverses some, but not all, of the laws that previously governed stem cell research.
