Read a moving account of Senator Hatch’s long and inspiring search
concerning his decision to support stem cell research from his book, Square Peg.
The "Right to Recover" by Yvonne Perry highlights TAMR's accomplishments in Texas. Click the picture to read the excerpt and to listen to the companion song.45 Prominent Texas Scientists have been delivered to the members of both houses of the 81st Texas legislature. The letter explains why we must protect all forms of ethical stem cell research if Texas is to retain its reputation as one of the leading states in medical research
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The Texas Medical Association calls for a reasonable Texas state policy on stem cell research. The position encourages sound and ethical scientific principles and will be of great economic and medical benefit to the state and its citizens.
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Compromise – Texas House of Representatives agree not to force a vote on embryonic stem cell research leaving the rider on the Senate version to be settled in conference committee.
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International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) member explains why Texas must not be hampered in its ability to do ethical stem cell research of all kinds.
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Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research statement regarding NIH draft of regulations for NIH funded embryonic stem cell research.
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Unlike Texas, many other states are making strong commitments to stem-cell research, not only to improve public health but also to capitalize on its economic development potential.
Institutions in California, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin have been the leaders in this field, in part because of state laws that ensure the legality of embryonic stem-cell research
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Senator Steve Ogden will try anything to shut down embryonic research in Texas!
Target of the group’s suspicions is Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan. Last month, with only hours’ notice to colleagues, Ogden guided through his committee a budget provision prohibiting use of state budget funds on research that involves destruction of human embryos.
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Two Separate Studies Suggest Startling Possibilities
Taking two different approaches but coming up with similar results, researchers in Wisconsin and Japan have used human skin to derive cells with properties remarkably similar to those of embryonic stem cells, the gold standard of stem cell-based regenerative medicine.
The Wisconsin research team genetically reprogrammed human skin cells to create [...]
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By injecting an amendment into the Texas Senate budget bill to ban state funding for stem cell research that involves the destruction of a human embryo, Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, has provided a textbook example of how powerful elected officials can end-run democratic processes to suit their own ideological agendas.
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James Thompson, iPS pioneer explains what discovery means for the future
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist James Thomson announced a groundbreaking discovery in November of 2007. Ordinary adult skin cells had been reprogrammed to resemble embryonic stem cells. The new cells are called Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. What does it mean for the future of Stem Cell research.
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