Posted on 01/03/2007 6:37:55 PM PST by Coleus
New Jersey took a leap forward in its self-declared race with other states for the lead in stem cell research yesterday as Gov. Jon Corzine signed a bill providing $270 million in state aid to build five research centers. Senate President Richard Codey (D-Essex), a prime sponsor of the legislation, told a standing-room-only audience at the Statehouse ceremony that research to be conducted at the new centers will affect people all over the world.
"The true scope of this initiative may not be felt for a decade or even longer," Codey said, "when people around the world live vastly improved lives because of the work that will be done right here in New Jersey." The audience included presidents of the universities that will share in the aid, people with spinal cord injuries and advocates of research into the potential healing uses of stem cells.
But even one of the leading advocates cautioned results will not come quickly. Wise Young, a physician and chairman of the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University in Piscataway, said it will take "years" to complete construction of the centers and draw top scientists and researchers to staff them. "If we can get it done in years we should try," said Young, who heads a search committee to find a director for the planned Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, the centerpiece of the research effort. The legislation provides $150 million to build and equip the institute in New Brunswick.
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Amazing, isn't it - when research for stem cells for cures is a noble liberal cause but drug research is villianized by the left - I'm waiting for Moore's new film on the evils of drug companies and their research.
What a scam. You know whats more important to health than stem cell research?? How about food. Why not just open up free food centers?
Well we can't deny that there is a need for some cell replacement in Jersey.
Will the voters hold anyone to account when, in 10 years or so, money continues to go down that black hole of embryonic stem cell research with nothing to show for it?
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Might I assume that the article is talking about fetal stem cells, not adult stem cells, etc?
Perhaps they could combine Medicaid-funded abortion clinics next to the "research" facilities... I mean, gosh, the research facility will be much more pleasing to the eye than the dumpster that normally goes there....
Yeah, BRAIN cells!
This government program is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded cash cow for the pharmaceutical industry -- to make it worthwhile for some of its major players to stay in a state that would otherwise become a miserable place to do business for them.
DICK Codey of West Orang sponsored this...
because that's not as glamorous as murdering babies in an effort to enable cripples to possibly walk despite the fact that this is just conjecture and adult stem cells hold more promise.
Sadly we will NEVER stem the tide of fetal-hate in this country, and pretty soon, God will hand this country over to the evils they so crave which will consume them, although they will never recognize their demise. http://sacredscoop.com
Yeah, I'm familiar with Jersey politics. We lived there from 1981-1988. It hasn't been any better in MA, where we've lived since then.
California, New Jersey, and in New York State the new governor Eliott Spitzer promised $1 Billion for sc research, including, or maybe all of the money, for experimenting on embryos.
Evil spreading through our country, one state at a time.
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