Stem cell research moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign last week. The Democratic candidates said they would ease the Bush administration’s restrictions on federal funding and quadruple the money available. Republicans retorted that they were the first to finance embryonic stem cell research and that the Democrats were cruelly inflating expectations for instant cures. Just as the debate was heating up, two developments suggested that the Democrats were right to call for expansion of this important research.
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