Tuesday, February 10, 2009

[StemCellInformation] Digest Number 780

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President Obama made some positive statements regarding for stem cel

Posted by: "Stephen Meyer" Stephen276@comcast.net   stephen_meyer_stemcells

Mon Feb 9, 2009 6:55 pm (PST)

[Advocacy in Action] [JDRF Action Alert]
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<http://takeaction.jdrf.org/site/R?i=MpZINkr9e0zPVVxfWw5dTQ..>

At a recent meeting of legislators, President Obama made some positive
statements regarding his Executive Order expanding the federal
government's support for stem cell research. Please take a moment to
send him a 'thank you' note for his promise to expand stem cell research
by clicking here
<http://takeaction.jdrf.org/site/R?i=CLl00RLW1-vm8Ix64psZQQ..> or on
the link below.

Thank the President for His Stem Cell Research Support!
<http://takeaction.jdrf.org/site/R?i=P5tXh_1hQiZDT7tY56QTow..>

You can read what the President had to say about stem cell research by
clicking here
<http://takeaction.jdrf.org/site/R?i=EgtXD_NOcUF8-piPk0JN4g..> . Please
send your message TODAY and encourage others to join you in thanking the
President!

Thank you.

JDRF Government Relations

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

[StemCellInformation] Digest Number 779

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Excerpts are from Jan 29 article, available online in Hartford Coura

Posted by: "Stephen Meyer" Stephen276@comcast.net   stephen_meyer_stemcells

Sat Feb 7, 2009 4:01 pm (PST)


From the Hartford Courant, January 29, 2009

"State leaders praised the development of the new stem cell lines as
validation of the state's 2005 decision to invest $100 million in stem
cell research over 10 years. Because former President George W. Bush
<http://www.courant.com/topic/politics/government/presidents-of-the-unit\
ed-states/george-bush-PEPLT000857.topic> restricted the use of federal
funds for human embryonic stem cell research, the state money allowed
Connecticut researchers to work in a cutting-edge area of science that
their counterparts in all but a handful of other states could not.

Now, at a time when the state's economic prospects look bleak and
policymakers worry about the exodus of young, educated workers from
Connecticut, stem cell research is offering a bit of hope. The state
stem cell money has allowed Connecticut to lure top scientists —
including Xu, Ge Lin, the postdoctoral fellow who created the stem cell
lines, and Haifan Lin, director of the Yale Stem Cell Center — and
has spurred research and biotech business efforts.

"Instead of having a brain drain where all of our best and brightest in
Connecticut were going out of the country or to other states, we started
to receive some of the best and the brightest in Connecticut," said
Warren
<http://www.courant.com/topic/us/connecticut/litchfield-county/warren-%2\
8litchfield-connecticut%29-PLGEO100100203240000.topic> Wollschlager,
who administers the state stem cell research program as the chief of the
office of research and development at the state Department of Public
Health.

That could soon pay off in even bigger ways.

President Barack Obama
<http://www.courant.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT0074\
08.topic> is expected to lift the restriction on federal funding for
human embryonic stem cell research, and officials and researchers say
Connecticut's head start will give it a major advantage in competing for
federal research money.

"We have a track record now, which I think will be looked upon very
favorably in Washington," Pescatello said.

So far, the $29.6 million in state stem cell money has been used to
build the infrastructure for research facilities, recruit faculty and
fund research by scientists from UConn, Wesleyan and Yale. Wollschlager
said the state program has begun receiving more private sector
applications and that they are improving in quality.

Already, businesses related to stem cells are developing in the state,
Pescatello said. One company getting started in the New Haven
<http://www.courant.com/topic/us/connecticut/new-haven-county/new-haven-\
%28new-haven-connecticut%29-PLGEO100100205150000.topic> area is
planning to use stem cells to create a uniform supply of cells to test
new drugs on, Pescatello said.

UConn's new stem cell lines, named CT1 and CT2, were derived from
embryos from a fertility clinic, donated with the consent of the
patients, according to UConn

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Latest Stem Cell Research Information

Posted by: "Stephen Meyer" Stephen276@comcast.net   stephen_meyer_stemcells

Sat Feb 7, 2009 4:22 pm (PST)


If you are really interested in the latest news in Stem Cell Research,
check out the Genetics Policy Institute's web site at

http://www.genpol.org/ <http://www.genpol.org/>

After you look at the site, join the Stem Cell Action Network.

http://www.genpol.org/newsletter.html
<http://www.genpol.org/newsletter.html>

Steve

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