Stanford researcher defends stem cell work in Hamilton, Montana lecture

September 20, 2007

“They're perfectly right to have that opinion,” Weissman said. “They're not right to impose it on the rest of us.”

Stem-cell research has the potential to cure some of our most devastating diseases, but is being hampered by political opposition with no basis in scientific fact, according to Dr. Irving Weissman, a part-time Hamilton resident and director of Stanford University's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine http://stemcell.stanford.edu/.

However, there are those who believe it's wrong to perform medical experiments on human stem cells, he said Tuesday evening at a lecture in Hamilton.

By TYLER CHRISTENSEN of the Missoulian

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