[Rasmussen]  Only 33% of U.S. voters believe that taxpayer money should be spent on embryonic stem cell research, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) say funding for such research should be left to the private sector.
While 55% of voters who identify themselves as pro-choice support government funding of stem cell research, [...]

[msnbc] A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in a slap to the Obama administration’s new guidelines on the sensitive issue.
The court ruled in favor of a suit filed in June by researchers who said human embryonic stem cell research involves the destruction of [...]

October 15 & 16, 2010, Princeton University - Open Hearts, Open Minds & Fair Minded Words - A Conference on Life & Choice in the Abortion Debate 
The conference is inspired by President Obama’s call for those on different sides of the abortion issue  to work together where we agree and engage in “vigorous debate” with “open [...]

Contrary to the Machiavellian cliché, nice people are more likely to rise to power. Then something strange happens: Authority atrophies the very talents that got them there.
[WSJ] When CEO Mark Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard last week in light of ethics violations, many people expressed surprise. Mr. Hurd, after all, was known as an unusually effective [...]

[jsonline] The cloning of animals may have come from agriculture, but its real promise may be in the lucrative field of medicine rather than as food.
Genetically modified cows and goats can produce proteins in their milk that can be extracted as a drug component. Cloning animals to create living drug factories could lower the costs [...]

[The Hill]  A group of bipartisan senators this week introduced legislation to entice drug makers to focus more intently on cures for uncommon children’s diseases.
Sponsored by Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.), the Creating Hope Act aims to solve a nagging problem inherent to the market-driven world of pharmaceutical manufacturing: [...]

Coalition government promises to abolish respected regulator in effort to cut back on quangos.
[Nature] In the ethically fraught field of human-embryo research, Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has long been regarded as a world leader in regulating and advising scientists.
But now the HFEA faces the axe, and researchers and politicians are chorusing their [...]