stem cell lines as long as they themselves did not participate in embryo destruction" (Robinson). The government was on the verge of issuing its first stem cell grants when Bill Clinton left office. Shortly after George Bush was sworn into office, he banned all stem cell research and experimentation. Later, he then decided to allow further research to be done on the 60 existing stem cell lines (Robinson). However, scientists believe that this source of experimentation is not only unbeneficial, but also ridiculous. According to George Daley, a leading stem cell researcher at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, "To limit researchers to 60 cell lines, is like telling mathematicians they can pursue their studies but they can never use numbers bigger that 10" (quoted in Robinson).
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