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Bernard Siegel, Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute, reports on the "Stem Cell Policy and Advocacy Summit: Sustaining the Mandate for Cures" in Houston, June 11-12, 2005, and a compendium of recent human embryonic stem cell news

Etopia Media Medical News Network #82

Houston, Texas
June 13, 2005

By Marc Strassman
Reporter
Etopia Media Medical News Network
California Politics Today
American Politics Today
Etopia Media News Networks

Bernard Siegel, Founder and Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute

Genetics Policy Institute Executive Director Bernard Siegel reports on the "Stem Cell Policy and Advocacy Summit: Sustaining the Mandate for Cures" conference at Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas

On June 11-12, 2005, the Genetics Policy Institute hosted the "Stem Cell Policy and Advocacy Summit: Sustaining the Mandate for Cures" conference at Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.

Etopia Media Medical News Network spoke today with Bernard Siegel, Executive Director of the Genetics Policy Institute, about this conference, about what happened there, and about the latest developments in stem cell science and politics.

You can listen to this conversation with Bernard Siegel, Executive Director of the Genetics Policy Institute, in its entirety, by clicking here.

You can listen to Genetics Policy Institute Executive Director Bernard Siegel's preview of this conference by clicking here.

You can read more about this event in this press release announcing it.

You can get additional information about this event from this news advisory about it.

Links to other recent Etopia Media News Network articles about the stem cell debate in Washington, D.C.

5-28-05: Saying "We simply should not go down the road of using taxpayer dollars to kill young humans," U.S Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) condemns House vote on embryonic stem cell research (American Politics Today #27)

5-26-05: Saying that "the Dark Ages are over" and "science will prevail," Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT) supports H.R. 810, the "Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005," and H.R. 2558, the "Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act" (American Politics Today #26)

5-26-05: Listen to Senator Diane Feinstein calling for a Senate vote on DeGette-Castle embryonic stem cell research expansion bill (American Politics Today #25)

Links to other recent Etopia Media News Network articles about the stem cell debate in California and Massachusetts

5-12-05: Bi-coastal dog days for hESC (human embryonic stem cell) research (Etopia Media Medical News Network #68)

5-11-05: California cannot sell $3 billion in embryonic stem cell research bonds until a lawsuit challenging its right to do so is resolved (Etopia Media Medical News Network #67)

The ethics of embryonic stem cell research and of "egg farming" to produce the human egg cells it requires

5-25-05: Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, discusses current issues in cloning and stem cell research (American Politics Today #23/ Etopia Media Medical News Network #79)

5-23-05: Wesley Smith, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, discusses the latest developments in embryonic stem cell/cloning research, terminology, and ethics (Etopia Media Medical News Network #78)

5-23-05: Stanford bio-ethicist Mildred Cho says properly-informed and financially-uncompensated "research donors" will still want to donate their eggs for embryonic stem cell/bio-medical research (Etopia Media Medical News Network #77)

Advances in embryonic stem cell research

5-20-05: Collaboration emerges among the human embryonic stem cell/cloning "Big Three": Hwang Woo-Suk, Gerald Schatten, and Ian Wilmut (Etopia Media Medical News Network #76)

5-20-05: South Korea and U.K. advance in global hESC competition, while California's efforts are snarled in litigation (Etopia Media Medical News Network #73)

5-20-05: Who is Gerald Schatten? (Etopia Media Medical News Network #72)

5-19-05: Korean team led by Hwang Woo-suk creates 11 lines of human embryonic stem cells from afflicted patients; moral issues remain (Etopia Media Medical News Network #70)

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