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Stem cell battle in Nebraska
The Scientist 2005, 19(3):13
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Nebraska has been a "red state" for decades, but Nebraska state senator Joel Johnson, a Republican and former surgeon, was bothered by Senate colleagues' attempts in recent years to pass a bill banning somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). So he decided to fight back and introduce another bill, LB580, that does almost the opposite: banning reproductive cloning but permitting research on embryonic stem cells. "We decided to take the offensive this year," he says.
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