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Obama’s stem-cell announcement

Posted March 11th, 2009

Last fall, the Why Files talked with Stephen Byer, advocate for people with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). We talked again while working on a feature on Obama’s decision to allow funding for research on embryonic stem cells.
“Our response to the announcement? We were thrilled to see the great potential for progress that this represents. It is a long awaited change in concept that been far too long in the making.” Read much more reaction to this development March 19.

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