The 85-year-old said some of the money would go towards an international hospital for stem-cell treatment.
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In 2006, prosecutors said Hwang masterminded the process of creating false studies on stem-cell technology.
It was then restored with a stem-cell transplant from a patient with the mutation.
This advance has pushed the foundation smack into the political issue of stem-cell research.
President Bush, citing ethical issues, has allowed only limited federal funding for stem-cell research.
Drug giants including Roche, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca have taken their own steps toward embracing stem-cell-based research.
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They derived the actual stem-cell lines for each of these patients, nine of the 11 patients.
Other scientists took note, and pressure arose to ease the restraints on stem-cell labs.
An ardent opponent of stem-cell experimentation, Focus on the Family, takes a hard line.
They have funneled three times as much as the federal government into embryonic stem-cell research.
Many believe the emphasis should be placed on adult stem-cell research, which poses fewer ethical questions.
"It doesn't have to be, you know, embryo stem-cell research or fetal or cloning, " Lott said.
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Those objections, critics say, could cover anything from abortions to fertility treatments to stem-cell research.
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Langevin estimated that nearly half of all Americans could benefit from embryonic stem- cell research.
Both said embryonic stem-cell research is morally objectionable and unlikely to produce promised treatments or cures.
Father-of-three Luigi Belcuore, 43, from Warwickshire, agreed to take part in a stem-cell clinical trial.
This idea of self-treatment is one of the reasons adult stem-cell science is so fashionable.
Already as an undergraduate, Ivan did stem-cell research that could lead to new cancer treatments.
If it succeeds in commercialising his stem-cell technology, its shareholders will, indeed, have plenty to smile about.
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From fast trains to stem-cell research, Californians voted for good things while neglecting to pay for them.
The upshot of all this is that the stem-cell hypothesis of cancer growth looks a good one.
They were able to get a clone in a stem-cell line in basically one of 17 eggs used.
If a cloned baby has been born, that success stands in stark contrast to the failure of stem-cell firms.
Friedlander's stem-cell therapy could one day compete with drugs like Lucentis from Genentech.
It is an investor in the San Diego biotech company Novocell, which is developing stem-cell therapy to cure diabetes.
The research could put pressure on big drug companies to wade into the ethically complicated field of stem-cell research.
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering, stem-cell biologist Lorenz Studer has received money from Project A.L.S. and the Starr and Michael J.
In some areas, such as genes, software and stem-cell research, the question of what qualifies for protection is controversial.
Scientists are keen to use stem-cell research on cloned embryos as a way of curing several previously untreatable diseases.
Several state referendums were also passed, including California's initiative to fund stem-cell research.
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