Romney defends position on stem cells
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday defended his opposition to most embryonic stem cell research despite its scientific promise to cure diseases like multiple sclerosis that afflicts his wife, Ann.
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Here's a reality check amid Congress' showdown with President Bush over stem cell research: The potential treatments for diabetes, spinal cord injury and other devastating disorders are years away from being tested in people.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday told hundreds of anti-abortion activists that his conversion to their cause is genuine as he sought to fend off rivals' criticism that he's inconsistent on the issue.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry on Monday broadened his attack on President Bush to include stem cell research when he accused his rival of ignoring science that could offer millions of sick Americans a chance at a cure.
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Nobel laureate James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, on Monday defended stem cell research, saying researchers must be able to search for ways to improve quality of life despite the field's uncertainties.
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A company that devised a way to make embryonic stem cells using a technique it said does not harm human embryos reported on Thursday it has grown five batches of cells using this method and urged President George W. Bush to endorse it.
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President Bush and his Democratic Party challenger, John Kerry, have staked out sharply different positions on the controversial subject of embryonic stem cell research.
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Governor Mitt Romney reiterated his opposition to a type of stem-cell research yesterday, saying laboratories that create embryos for study take science too far.
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Stem-cell research is likely to take the stage again in the third and final presidential debate Wednesday at Arizona State University now that one of the most recognizable faces for the cause has died.
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Scientists may be close to developing a way to create stem cells without destroying embryos in the process, but that won't necessarily end the political battles over the divisive issue
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Gov. Mitt Romney, who has voiced past support for stem cell research, told Massachusetts legislative leaders Thursday he believes some embryonic stem cell science "crosses the boundary of ethics."
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The Aug. 23 op-ed article &quot;Facts on Stem Cells&quot; by Ruth R. Faden and John D. Gearhart purported to be an objective look at the stem cell debate, yet all the &quot;facts&quot; were assembled to support embryonic stem cell research.
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One of the things that annoys me most about the liberal media machine and the Democratic candidates is their mischaracterization of George Bush&#39;s position on stem cell research.
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Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, wants to ban the creating of embryos specifically for medical research.
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Following the deaths of Ronald Reagan and Christopher Reeve, embryonic stem cell research with its potential to find cures for debilitating illnesses is giving John Kerry and other Democrats an issue to pitch to moderate Republican voters.
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Critics lambast Robert Lanza for claims he and his company made about their stem-cell work. Now he takes his argument to the Senate. In Bodyhack.
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New research is casting doubts on the usefulness of the human embryonic stem cells available under the White House&#39;s research policy.