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I think this is a natural place for this stem cell bank to be located.

Tom Still

It's encouraging that scientists are even thinking about the ethical problems of embryonic stem-cell research. But I don't think these two techniques solve the ethical problems.

David Prentice

I am sure anti stem-cell activists will use this to show that there are problems with this science and that it is not effectively regulated.

David Winickoff

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Donald Demayo

The weakness from Friday carried forward to the international markets and we could get a horrific open here today. The concerns stem from the rising rates structure and what we got on Friday was something of a good news, bad news syndrome.

Larry Wachtel

Investors should be aware that biotech companies, especially in the stem-cell space, tend to move with the news flow, ... If there's bad news, like if Bush vetoes this bill as he promised he will, the prices could go back to more reasonable valuations.

Ren Benjamin

Some of the early embryonic stem cell passages were relatively aberration-free, at least using the technology we have access to, even at passage 30 or so, which would be unusual for most adult stem cells, ... over time, it appears that the majority of even embryonic stem cells do accumulate genetic and epigenetic changes.

Johns Hopkins

We talked about naming the course Blue Stem Plains and this hole will have the blue-stem grass planted along it.

Patrick Anderson

This will have a profound impact on stem-cell research. The opponents of the research will feel themselves to be vindicated.

Laurie Zoloth

It's a recognition that we already have here some of the highest quality stem cell lines in the nation, if not the world. It also speaks to the fact that we have in place an infrastructure for developing those lines in a highly ethical way and in a highly efficient way.

Tom Still

A bilingual site is essential to this company. In the end, we want to do anything we can to help serve people of all ethnic backgrounds, so that they may have the same opportunity as the Caucasian community to overcome diseases treatable with stem cell applications.

Dwight Brunoehler

It's very beneficial to the space. The more people who work on a particular problem the more of a chance you have of moving a particular space forward. It opens up a lot options now in the embryonic stem cell space.

Ren Benjamin

In particular, they have expressed concern about legal challenges to the distribution of stem-cell grants under California's Proposition 71. This issue needs to be reviewed thoughtfully and prudently.

Joe Donnelly

This paper shows that it's worth the effort to clone an embryo and make a stem cell line because it should be useful for therapy.

Tobias Brambrink

I think he's on the right track in trying to see that Florida becomes a cutting edge state, ... We have some of the best researchers, and it would be a pity if we cannot advance stem cell research in the state.

Bernard Siegel

I can't stress enough that this technology is not ready for prime time right now. It is not a replacement for those techniques that we already have for derivation of embryonic stem cells.

Kevin Eggan

However, increased interest in marketing automation [solutions] also [stem] from increased business confidence and resultant purchasing decisions.

Sharon Mertz

The National Academy of Sciences guidelines for stem cell research prohibits payment to egg donors, and scientists in the U.S. have embraced those principles. There is a right way and a wrong way, and we must be sure to perform this vitally important medical research the right way.

Dr George Daley

Open to the scientific public, and not just the commercial public, the ability to use these stem cells to understand how organs form.

Irving Weissman

What the sub is going to start to do is locate things on GPS from stem to stern, then in other dives we're going to be hoping to find information on the damage to the hull, and potential for damage to propeller blades and to the rudder.

John Cottreau

We're very excited about these stem cells. We're really on the cusp of making some big leaps forward.

Aileen Anderson

Our experiments are very clear. You inhibit this gene and you get a clone that has no way of ever implanting. But this clone can make embryonic stem cells.

Rudolf Jaenisch

It was the precursor to today's stem-cell research, ... I was like an angel investor on Baxter's behalf.

Peter Farrell

The Global Achievement Award was intended for an individual who has made a monumental worldwide contribution to the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine.

Bernard Siegel

This research is significant because it suggests that it will be possible to create mouse 'models' of human brain tissue, enabling scientists to try out both stem cell interventions and other potential cures on living human brain cells without having to use humans in the process.

Glenn Mcgee

A person is someone's totality. If your brain stem is alive and kicking, you are alive and kicking. It's because God thinks of us, irrespective of our awareness, that we are persons.

Nigel Cameron

Everybody wants to talk about cancer stem cells now. From funding agencies to institutions to scientists, people are recognizing that this is probably the game to be in.

John Dick

The training grants, while they're in service of research by training people to work with stem cells, would not actually allow the research to go forward.

Irving Weissman

The Republican Party has never been this narrow, litmus-test type party. We can disagree on an issue like choice or stem cell research and not be an enemy or a bad person. We need to get away from this approach that we see more and more today, that you can't be a good Republican if you don't believe certain things in a certain way.

Christine Todd Whitman

To my knowledge, the only team that can reliably produce disease-specific and patient-specific human embryonic stem cells is the team in Korea.

Shane Smith

That is really where all the problems stem from, quite honestly. We have to tighten that up. That's very urgent that we have to tighten that up.

Mike Tice

Vast amounts of money will be poured into stem cell research in the coming decades because everyone thinks that's the future of medicine. The temptation [to cheat] is great.

Dr. Harvey Marcovitch

Overall, we're coming in week after week for about five to six weeks of negative news. Everyone is being optimistic about any number that comes out, hoping that will be the catalyst to stem the downside. But that hasn't happened.

Warren Meyers

We think it will be the largest collection of stem cell scientists in the world.

Chris Gordon

One of the big concerns is if these stem cells express (produce) genes that can cause cancer. After implanting them into a patient, it would be cancer waiting to happen. You want to make sure that the cells you use for therapy are actually normal and are not in any way screwed up to start with.

Tobias Brambrink

I was very shocked at that. If there's trouble, he's the head coach. Who is supposed to stem it?

Charles Brooks

Marilyn is pro-choice, in favor of stem-cell research, wants to protect our beaches and oceans, and supports importing low-cost prescription drugs from Canada. As Democrats, we can have a Republican we can agree with on some issues or a Republican we will never agree with.

Jerry Patterson

Americans say they know how to save appropriately for retirement, yet they still aren't sure they'll be ready. This overconfidence may well stem from a belief that Americans' escalating home values are their retirement savings. However, relying on real estate alone isn't the smartest way to save.

Joe Coyne

We applaud studies using animals to figure out ethical ways to obtain embryonic stem cells apart from the creation and destruction of human embryos. So far, however, no one appears to have accomplished this feat. Meanwhile, the good news is that adult stem cells are already providing real cures for real patients.

David Stevens

All of the concerns about contaminating proteins in existing stem cell lines can essentially be removed using this medium.

Tenneille Ludwig

A win at No. 1 doubles may have helped stem their confidence some, but we won't know if that would have made a difference in the match. They are very talented at the top three spots and that was tough to overcome when they can play comfortably with a 3-0 cushion.

Marc Walters

Having civil and criminal identity theft penalties in place and continuing to inform Californians on how to prevent the theft of their personal or financial information will help stem this invasive crime.

Charlene Zettel

If we can offer these larger landowners an alternative to selling for development, then maybe we can stem some of this tide, this loss.

Susan Schmidt

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

People need to learn more about [embryonic stem cell research] as arguments become more complicated.

Jonathan Moreno

We remain concerned about the company's ability to stem the continued decline in profitability and credit protection measures.

David Kang

An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem-cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

Joe Donnelly

A stem cell trial like this without full review should just never, ever happen. The University of Pittsburgh should take the lead in the nation to ensure that this option is never provided, since they are the ones that did it wrong.

Glenn Mcgee

There aren't a lot of companies that are doing the (stem cell) work right now, but the topic is brought up now everywhere by everyone.

Joe Panetta

I've led a stem cell panel here for the last four years. Last year's panel was slanted toward talking about Proposition 71 because everyone wanted to know what is going on in California.

Joe Panetta

People have used the argument-not a scientific argument but a political argument-that we don't need to do human embryonic stem cell research because, after all, mature or adult stem cells will do everything. Doug's paper says that's not exactly correct.

Robert Goldstein

When law enforcement gets involved, we cease our internal investigation until they have completed their investigation. That investigation is now over and our interim secretary, Mr. McDonough, is now looking at everything from stem to stern.

Robby Cunningham

I can re-create everything in my lab, but it's going to be painful. Stem cells in the gene banks and the cancer cells in the tumor banks: Those are irreplaceable.

John Clements

The basis for recognizing Dr. Hwang was his reported landmark achievement in the creation of patient-matched stem cell lines. However, the results of an investigation by Seoul National University have shown that Hwang's results were largely fabricated.

Bernard Siegel

More often than not, this rich stem cell source is discarded as medical waste after childbirth, ... This pioneering initiative will enable us to pursue all options -- umbilical, placental and embryonic -- and let science point the way to stem cell cures, offering hope to the millions of people that suffer from life-threatening conditions.

Richard Codey

We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.

Dan Collins

Our research team made patient-specific embryonic stem cells and we have the technology to produce them.

Hwang Woo Suk

Then she gave something to the chief, and it was a pipe with a bison calf carved on one side to mean the earth that bears and feeds us, and with twelve eagle feathers hanging from the stem to mean the sky and the twelve moons, and these were tied with a grass that never breaks.

Black Elk

There's nothing Intel can really do until the second half of this year to stem material share loss.

Sangeeth Peruri

This relies on generating an embryo and destroying the embryo to remove the stem cells. Some people in our society believe that would be wrong.

Dr George Daley

Any parties engaging in further delays of the state stem cell funding should consider the lives of those at risk to be their responsibility. While further delays by appeal are possible, one should note that such actions would delay research, which eventually could ameliorate disease and save human lives.

Irving Weissman

I personally think stem-cell research is still in the conceptual phase and still has a long way to go before it has commercial applications. It's more of a political and media issue than a technology that's close to making a difference in curing disease.

Alidad Mireskandari

Draws a strict ethical line by only allowing federally funded research on stem cell lines that were derived ethically from donated embryos determined to be in excess.

Mike Castle

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

Stephanie Coontz

Ethics can get forgotten as other nations and private companies race to fill the void left by the president's reluctance to fund stem cell research. Only a properly funded U.S. stem cell research program will guarantee oversight and the protection of all involved.

Glenn Mcgee

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Sue Trinh

The problem we have with this particular type of research, ... is that you have to kill a person to get these stem cells. That's unethical.

Judie Brown

This was a good game for some individuals and a good game for the team. There was a good feeling in the locker room afterward because we came back. It was good to see us step up and stem the tide.

Tom Marryott

We should be very cautious not to mislead the public that these two papers demonstrate that we no longer need to do research on human embryos or human embryonic stem cell lines.

American Society

It's important work, clearly, because it demonstrates continuing research to increase expansion of adult stem cells. It's an efficiency question.

Paul Sanberg

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Mandeep Kaur

Quality control is very difficult. We are organized like an army. We have the manager, the engineers and group leaders - each group has 20 farmers growing 10 hectares of grapes. We have a rule that each stem can have only one bunch of grapes. But the local farmers don't understand this. It is very hard for them.

Ren Jing

The promise of stem cell research is that instead of prescribing medication and rehabilitation for people with heart attacks, strokes, spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, we will cure them.

Fred Jacobs

No one has ever done this before, ... What we are trying to do here is to create a stem cell line without injuring an embryo. Our cells can go on to become a healthy, kicking baby.

Robert Lanza

The patient-matching stem cells no longer exist.

Roe Jung Hye

They demonstrate that you can isolate the equivalent embryonic stem cells by alternative methods that may not raise the ethical questions.

Dr George Daley

At least four other states are debating bills or ballots initiative to promote stem cell research.

Alissa Johnson

Even as we grieve, we must take quick action to stem the crisis and help those in desperate need.

Nancy Pelosi

Recent work using neural stem cells has indicated that stem cell transplantation to the injured spinal cord may help recovery, so ... this is really occurring at a very encouraging time and we hope that these particular stem cells will also make a contribution.

Ira Black

We thought there might be some relationship between telomerase, telomere length and the survival of stem cells, but it was really exciting to see it.

Carol Greider

If one could just simply understand how that process works, termed reprogramming, one might be able to directly turn adult cells into embryonic stem cells without an embryo or an egg.

Kevin Eggan

If Scripps is going to be seeking stem cell money from California, one day we'd like to think that funding would be available so Scripps could do similar research in the state of Florida.

Bernie Siegel

Most of the bad things that happen seem to stem from alcohol, and that is reflected as we go through the week. There are days when we have zero (prescriptions), but not too many.

Kathy Maclachlan

The major part of the problem in Ontario over the past few years is on the spending side, and unimaginative policy decisions, and we haven't really done much on the fiscal side to sort of stem problems with the increased spending.

David Watt

I hope we're a little bit more focused this week. Most of our problems stem from being young. We're depending on sophomores. We've got to get some of our seniors and upperclassmen to step up.

Lance Guidry

Stem cells are for everyone, including the MTV generation. Sabrina has the charisma, personality and exuberance to be a tremendous spokesperson for the cause.

Bernie Siegel

This paper demonstrates clearly that it doesn't matter if a stem cell has been derived from a cloned embryo or from a fertilized embryo.

Rudolf Jaenisch

There are several on a stem.

Polly Kolstad

We know that there is not a single view about embryonic stem cell research in Europe. We have to be careful how we use the funds contributed by EU member states.

Antonia Mochan

We're definitely hoping that the president will make mention of the success of adult stem-cell research.

Lanier Swann

We show that these [stem] cells make connections with the nervous system of the mouse in a way that is appropriate and could mediate recovery. That's a big thing.

Aileen Anderson

I think it's still a very important piece of legislation. The importance is the preservation of the eligibility for funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Susan O'brien

What he did was defend his actions rather than quell the fears of systemic risk. I'm really surprised that he'd do more to stem fears of hedge-fund community fallout.

Anthony Crescenzi

The beauty of this is you can use the stem cells as the Trojan horse. And once you put them in the brain, they make it (GDNF) for free.

Clive Svendsen

Technology for patient-specific embryonic stem cells belongs to South Korea. And you will find out that this is true.

Hwang Woo Suk

If we cannot do experiments to compare embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells, we can't answer questions about what advantages they may have and what we may be missing.

Richard Klausner

Our foundation wants to be a founding partner of this world stem cell effort.

Shane Smith

It will stem the defection, certainly.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This is a very disappointing proposal because it ignores the area with the greatest biomedical potential _ stem-cell research.

Charles Carrier

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Phil Mcgraw

There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically.

Josephine Quintavalle

Stem cells hold great promise for human therapy. In an optimal world, we would make stem cells genetically matched to a patient.

Tobias Brambrink

I think the Stem Cell Resource is going to have a lot of embryos very quickly.

Pamela Madsen

I had believed the stem cells existed until recently.

Ahn Curie

There are two things that can hurt an economy, one is a deficit and the other is higher taxes, so it's almost a matter of pick your poison, ... But why do we have to run deficits, or why do we need higher taxes? They both really stem from not the tax cuts but from overspending.

Tim Kane

There is no doubt that we produced 11 patient-specific stem cells and possess the core technology to create them again.

Hwang Woo Suk

Some of the conflicts stem from the characteristics of this generation. A lot of students were an only child or had their own room at home. When it comes to a point where it's not working out, we don't want the social aspect of college to interfere with the academic aspect, so we need to be flexible and give them options.

Julie Arnold

I think we'll see a number of (embryonic stem cell) spin-outs in Wisconsin - we got the first one going, and we're working on at least one more.

Carl Gulbrandsen

Only a properly funded US stem cell research program will guarantee oversight and the protection of all involved.

Glenn Mcgee

Ninety-nine percent of the work in stem cells does not involve cloning. This episode will have little impact on pace of research in the field as a whole.

Peter Andrews

When the judge looked at the evidence and saw how blatant the stem cell opponents were in stealing the codes and information from our Web site, he said that it was an obvious and intentional attempt to confuse the public. They're willing to use every tool of deception and disinformation to accomplish their goals.

Donn Rubin

We want to understand how stem cells make this decision to differentiate or stay stem cells. What signals do they get? These are big questions, difficult questions, and we need to answer them. These are hard questions, but slowly we'll get the ability to answer them.

Harvey Lodish

None of the stem cells were patient-specific.

Roe Jung Hye

One of the main reasons for the lottery scholarships was an attempt to stem the tide of many of the best high school students in South Carolina leaving the state. Clearly that is working.

Russ Mckinney

We talked about parts of the flower such as the stem, leaves and petals. We'll study the parts of the plant in more detail next spring.

Susan King

To win public support and government funding, advocates for human cloning and ESC (embryonic stem cell) research have long made hyped claims and exaggerated promises to legislators and the public.

Richard Doerflinger

The method we have presented is not a replacement for embryonic stem cells. The advantages these offer are purely scientific ones.

Kevin Eggan

Stem cell research has the potential to aid 128 million Americans.

Ajar Kochar

It's too early to figure out the impact, but generally, if you're losing market share, reducing customer service does very little to stem that loss.

Donald Trott

It's yet to be determined how Roberts will deal with important decisions. I don't know his position on issues like stem-cell research, abortion or affirmative action. These are things that someone may attempt to bring to the Supreme Court.

James Payne

We don't require our astronomers to explore the heavens with 19th century telescopes, and we don't require our geologists to study the Earth with a tape measure. If we are serious about realizing the promise of stem cell research, our biomedical researchers need access to the best stem cell lines available.

Tom Harkin

This new technology should help provide better global influenza surveillance by making it easier for more laboratories to swiftly identify severe flu strains, which in turn may aid health officials to stem potential flu epidemics and even pandemics.

Kathy Rowlen

This is to advance stem cell science and medicine, not to make dogs by this unnatural method.

Gerald Schatten

They'll have their own bone marrow harvested. Stem cells will come over to this new facility and processed for a purified layer of cells containing stem cells. We'll put them directly into the heart during the operation.

George Russell

Right now there really is no oversight of who is doing what with human embryonic stem cells. The hope is that our guidelines will help to create a fairly uniform set of standards from one institution to another.

Jonathan Moreno

This new discovery gives an indication as to what we have always suspected; that cord blood stem cells can differentiate to become all types of cells in the body.

Dwight Brunoehler

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Craig Bennett

The life science industry is doing well in Michigan, one of the few, and it is succeeding without lifting the ban on cloning stem cells or creating and destroying embryos.

Matt Resch

California could become the global center for stem cell research with that kind of investment and the talent that's there. But within Harvard alone, we have as many outstanding scientists as arguably all of California. I think many of us are envious of the resources in California, but we're doing our best to organize and effort around somewhat more modest funding.

Dr George Daley

It's not as if this research says there is no need for embryonic stem cells. It continues to show the enormous potential of stem-cell research and highlights the value of embryonic stem cells as a source of research material.

Sean Tipton

So we see stem cells as a new way of approaching these horrifying diseases that devastate the lives of so many people.

Stanley Prusiner

He (Hwang) really is the face of stem cell research and cloning research right now. He has been lionized in some ways. Researchers in other countries are all too eager to see him go down in flames.

David Winickoff

The woes in Hollywood always stem from the same thing. And that's the product that's out there. People turn out for good movies. They just didn't see as much that caught their attention.

Jack Foley

My entire political career, I voted pro-life, and that is exactly why I favor the stem cell initiative. I believe in saving human life. I want cures to be found.

John C. Danforth

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Senator Dianne Feinstein

Even the dumbest stem cell is smarter than the smartest neurobiologist in growing adequate concentrations of cells.

Evan Snyder

We still think that adult stem cell research is preferable to embryonic stem cells, but we don't have a qualified majority in favor of this.

Elisabeth Gehrer

We didn't play much better than we did against Lincoln North Star on Monday (an 11-0 loss). However, many of our mistakes in both games stem from fatigue. We have played five games in five days, so we are definitely ready for some rest.

Elisa Kitzelman

The Republican opponent here opposes any expansion of stem cell research. There is a clear difference between the approach I'm taking and the approach he's taking. For him to not be willing to support that puts him out on the extreme.

Ed Perlmutter

This program will be the most comprehensive and broadest program for stem cell research training in the country and I assume in the world.

Zach Hall