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Texas Medical Association Stem Cell Statement
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.
Restrictions Would Hamper Texas in Stem Cell Competition
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.
CAMR Statement Regarding NIH Draft Guidelines For Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research statement regarding NIH draft of regulations for NIH funded embryonic stem cell research.
Houston Chronicle Editorial – Stealth legislating
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.
Passed with scant discussion by Ogden’s committee 6-5, the budget bill includes a rider that if allowed to become law, will inflict serious damage to efforts to boost regenerative medicine research in Texas, particularly at state institutions, including the University of Texas
