Calif. Quietly Shifts Fruitless Embryo Research Funds to Adult Stem Cells

Investors knock waste on useless research
Friday January 29, 2010
By Kathleen Gilbert
LOS ANGELES

(LifeSiteNews.com) - California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine came into being five years ago, fueled by a conviction that the Bush administration's restriction on embryo-destructive research in the National Institutes of Health was stifling the progress of science.

But after years of fruitless work, the Institute has now quietly diverted funds from embryonic stem cell research (ESCr) to adult stem cell research - which has already produced dozens of treatments and all-out cures for maladies ranging from spinal cord injury, to Alzheimer's, to type I diabetes. the rest