The announcement was met with praise at UW- Madison, a leader in research on human embryonic stem cells, by stem-cell researcher James Thomson.
“Recent advancements in the field . . . really demand that we now go beyond the president’s compromise,” Thomson said. “I personally believe that if we don’t get beyond that compromise soon, people will suffer and die needlessly. Given the current political realities of his party, Senator Frist’s announcement was courageous, and I commend it.”