Scientists Testify Before Senate On Stem Cell Limits; They Agree Lawmakers Should Pursue Embryonic Stem Cell Studies Before Alternative Sources

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush and his conservative Senate allies are trying to peel votes from a stem cell bill by offering alternative legislation that would instead fund promising but unproven studies, several senators said Tuesday.

"I'm all for these alternative sources, (but) not as a substitute, not as some way of stopping what we're about to do," said Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Senate sponsor of a bill already passed by the House that would end Bush's 2001 ban on federal funding for new human embryonic stem cell studies.

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Scientists Testify Before Senate On Stem Cell Limits; They Agree Lawmakers Should Pursue Embryonic Stem Cell Studies Before Alternative Sources

Several scientists testifying Tuesday before the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations subcommit...

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