Author: jplucas

There are plenty of reasons to question the rationale for President’s Bush’s choice of the stem cell funding bill for his first presidential veto. We certainly disagree with the veto and question the message the President sends by making it his first. Never he less we respect the different opinions on this issue and feel it’s a debate worth having. And if the majority of Americans continue to support stem cell research, as polls indicate, eventually science will prevail.

Q: Were there ever any lyrics to taps — that sad melody that is usually sounded at military funerals?
A: Taps was one of many military service calls sounded on the bugle that helped structure the day for infantryman, said Susan Cook, a UW-Madison professor of music whose specialty is American music.

Madison, Wis. – Dr. Jamie Thomson and his colleagues at Madison’s WiCell Research Institute announced early this year they had developed two new lines of stem cells “fed” through a culture medium free of animal proteins. The breakthrough was hailed in scientific circles because it moved stem-cell research a step closer to clinical trials.

Wisconsin is a leader in stem cell research – UW Madison scientist James Thompson grew the first embryonic stem cells in 1998.Now, the UW says the President’s veto could shake Wisconsin’s leading status.

The US scientific community expressed frustration and disappointment yesterday at the announcement that President George W. Bush would veto bipartisan legislation to ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.

Madison: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is facing a challenge to 3 patents it owns on stem cell technology.

A California nonââ?¬â??profit group says 3 UW stem cell patents are a bigger hindrance to research than President Bush and his veto pen.

It’s perfectly normal for parents to send their child off to the grandma’s house for a couple of days, but it’s not normal for them to be as worried as Kevin and Ruth Shelly are about their daughter Maggie.

MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The nation’s first bank of embryonic stem cells is thinking about outsourcing. The bank overseen by scientists at the University of Wisconsin is considering sending two new cell lines developed here to countries such as Australia and the United Kingdom where they can more easily be studied.

Madison, Wis. – The legal challenge to stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has escalated the war of words between two states -Wisconsin and California – with both questioning the other’s financial motivations.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said President George W. Bush dealt a major blow to embryonic stem cell research on Wednesday.

MADISON, Wis. — There’s an effort to overturn the embryonic stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

WASHINGTON // President Bush’s veto yesterday of a measure that would have expanded federal funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells promises to prolong years of sparring over whether the work promotes the destruction of life. But in many important ways, ethicists, researchers and even regulators within the Bush administration have moved past the political debate.

A California consumer watchdog group Tuesday asked the federal government to overturn three stem-cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

Reasonable voices in Congress from the left, middle and right agree on the need to encourage life-saving stem cell research.

Yesterday’s Senate vote was the latest skirmish in an often rancorous eight-year-old battle over the science and ethics of embryonic stem cell research.

Three bills on stem-cell research, one of which would fundamentally shift federal science policy, passed the Senate on Tuesday afternoon after two of days of extensive, exhaustive, and contentious debate. The landmark bill — which passed 63 to 37, and which President Bush has vowed to veto — would relax the federal government’s tight limits on which embryonic-stem-cell lines are eligible for federally subsidized research.

Washington, D.C. – The United States Senate, by a vote of 63-37, has enacted a bill that would overturn President Bush’s ban on new federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, setting the stage for a promised presidential veto.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin researchers and Gov. Jim Doyle applauded the U.S. Senate on Tuesday for passing a bill that lifts federal restrictions on stem-cell research. Both Wisconsin senators voted for the bill.

In a challenge to President Bush�s ban, the Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow federal money to be used for human embryonic stem cell research.