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Legislation merely provides framework for Prop 2

State CapitolWhen the voters passed Proposal 2 more than one year ago, they approved an amendment to the Michigan Constitution allowing embryos remaining from fertility treatments to be destroyed for their stem cells. The amendment does not allow buying or selling embryos, the embryos must be less than two weeks into development and the parents donating their embryonic children must give their written consent.

Geron admits timing of embryonic stem cell study to credit Obama

According to a Feb. 17, 2010 Times Online article, Dr. Thomas Okarma, CEO of Geron, admitted that Geron Corporation delayed asking for FDA approval for the first clinical trial using stem cells taken from human embryos in 2009. Okarma said their experiment to treat people with spinal cord injuries was delayed to give the Obama administration credit: "That was our timing. We did not want this to come up under the Bush Administration. We designed it."

 

Embryonic stem cells need not apply

microscopeStanford researchers have turned normal skin fibroblasts from mice into functioning nerve cells without reverting them back to an embryonic-like state. The biological shortcut demonstrated in this experiment and others shows that this process could be used instead of using embryonic stem cells or reverting cells into induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). 

Organizations supporting embryonic stem cell research

The following is a list of organizations that have expressed support for human embryonic stem cell research. Research with embryonic stem cells necessitates the destruction of human embryos.

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