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On August 9, 2001, President George W. Bush delivered an extraordinary prime-time television address to the nation that was devoted exclusively to an arcane topic of basic biomedical research: human embryonic stem cells. After months of factfinding and rancorous debate, Bush announced that federal funding would indeed be provided for the study of these remarkable cells, though only for preexisting stocks. Although disappointing to those who had hoped he would banish all such research, Bush's decision was at its core an endorsement of the promise of human embryonic stem cells and their importance to the fledgling field of regenerative medicine.

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From the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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