Obama's Guidelines for Stem Cell Research Dodge Controversial Bullets

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By Eliza Strickland
Apr 20, 2009 6:06 PMNov 5, 2019 9:00 PM
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The Obama administration's new guidelines for research using human embryonic stem cells have staked out a compromise position, avoiding some controversial areas while still encouraging a large expansion of federally-funded research. The proposed regulations would allow research on stem cells taken from surplus embryos at fertility clinics, where in vitro fertilization generally creates

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