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Some Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers and staff from HSCI co-director Doug Melton's lab gather in their lunchroom to watch and celebrate as President Obama signs an executive order that overturned President Bush’s ban on stem cell funding. Melton is at right. Rose Lincoln/Harvard University News Office |
Harvard scientists praise lifting of stem cell restrictionsAll across Cambridge and Boston, researchers gathered just before noon today in the laboratories that constitute the collaborative known to the world as the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), waiting to hear President Barack Obama announce to the world: “Today, with the executive order I am about to sign, we will bring the change that so many scientists and researchers, doctors and innovators, patients and loved ones have hoped for, and fought for, these past eight years: We will lift the ban on federal funding for promising embryonic stem cell research." |
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