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Bush speech highlights Wisc. stem-cell research: Dispute in funding of embryonic stem cells still remains

President George W. Bush gave his annual State of the Union address Monday, and his remarks on stem-cell research will likely reverberate in Wisconsin for the last year of his term.

Bush said he was in favor of funding the medical breakthrough by UW-Madison and Japanese researchers that reprogram skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells.