BARACK OBAMA’S election victory is putting a smile back on the faces of American stem cell researchers. They foresee a quick end to the restrictions on their work introduced in August 2001 by President George W. Bush.
Bush used an executive order to limit federally funded researchers to working on embryonic stem cells from just a few sources. ESCs are seen as having huge potential for repairing organs and tissues. Now those restrictions are likely to be among the first of Bush’s executive orders to be swept away.
The news emerged on 9 November in an interview on…
