A UW-Madison bioethicist has stirred up the stem-cell world by saying scientists who created some of the embryonic stem-cell lines approved for federal funding didn’t properly obtain consent from embryo donors.
A study by Robert Streiffer, a professor of bioethics and philosophy, raises new questions about President Bush’s policy limiting federal research grants to the 21 lines, or colonies, of stem cells derived before August 2001.
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