Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 12:30am
President Obama has lifted the ban on embryonic stem cell research enacted by Bush, but I'm left feeling that this intervention came many years too late.
As someone who works with stem cells I find this largely an empty, symbolic act, but one that needed to be done anyway. The reality is the damage was done by Bush already, and we're fortunate that it was only a temporary delay in some of the most important research humans have developed to date.