by Caroline Adenberger

with expert contribution on
Clear Science, Uncertain Future? by Matthew William Lensch

Embryonic stem (ES) cell research became a major issue in the 2004 presidential election [see bridges vol. 4 article “When Politics and Science Collide” by Johann Sattler], and has remained one of the most discussed and hotly debated issues in U.S. science policy. Although federal regulation on funding ES cell research hasn’t changed since the Bush decision in 2001, several States already have or soon will pass their own – widely varying – legislation on how to handle ES cell research within their state borders.

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