News 
Analysis
on paper
1998

- Flora Lichtman

News on
faked papers
2006

Senate leader 
opposes Pres. 
Bush, supports
stem cells
2005-------

2005-------
Skin cells 
converted to
stem cells            

2006
Science 
Magazine
retracts
articles

2005--------------
Korean group reports
efficient production
of stem cell lines

1)Kerry vows to 
lift funding ban 
if  elected; 2)Gov. 
Schwarzenegger
backs Prop. 71,
to spend 3 billion
on stem cell 
research in CA.
 -2004

2004-------
1)Korean group 
reports  making 
a cloned human
embryo; 
2) Interview with
Hwang
Woo Suk  

2004
Harvard 
researcher
challenges 
Bush’s policy
by donating
stem cell lines

Private funds
 ruled OK for 
SC research---
---2002

Pres. Bush
addresses
stem cells,
grants
no funding
for research
on new stem
cell lines
2001 

Pres.  Bush 
caught in 
the middle 
of a stem 
cell divide
1, 2, 3,
2001 

2001
Embryonic
stem cells
turned
into blood
cells, a first.

White
House
panel votes
to allow
embryonic
stem cell
research
-----1999

1998-----------------
First human 
embryonic stem
cell line isolated

1988
Embryonic
stem cell lines
created from
a hamster                   

Clinton
Reverses Ban 
1993-------

1)Senate reverses
Bush Sr.’s ban on
using federal
funds for research 
using aborted fetuses; 
2) Pres Bush vetoes, 
ban remains intact
-------1992-------

1981-------
First in-vitro
stem cell line
developed 
from miceScientific
meeting
to discuss
ethics of 
embryonic
research
--1983            

Anti-abortion
couple uses 
stem cells from
 aborted embryo
to try and
save son------- 
     1991

----1995
First  embryonic
stem cell line
derived from
a primate            

1997-------
Cloned
lamb  from
stem cells

The Vatican 
weighs in on 
embryonic 
research 
     1987