November 25th, 2005 South Korea's World Stem Cell Hub could become the leading center worldwide for stem cell and therapeutic cloning research because of the effect US policy has had on stem cell research, according to scientists affiliated with US company Advanced Cell Technology. "It reflects how far the US has fallen behind its competitors in this pivotal area and how much the lack of federal leadership has handicapped US efforts," allege Dr Robert Lanza, vice president for medical and scientific development of Advanced Cell Technology, and Professor Ronald Green, director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute and chair of Advanced Cell Technology's ethics advisory board, writing in the scientific journal Nature.

October 13th, 2005 The support for stem cell research cuts across political, religious and socio-economic lines as clearly shown in a survey of 2,212 people conducted by the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University in US. The survey found that a clear majority (67%) either approve or strongly approve of stem cell research, and 40% would expand government support for embryonic stem cell research, including federal financing to create new stem cell lines.

April 4th, 2007 Breaking with White House policy, Dr. Elias Zerhouni the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has thrown his support behind efforts to expand US government subsidies for embryonic stem-cell research.

June 11th, 2007 The Democratic-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but the bill's supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush's threatened veto. In a 247-176 vote, the House approved legislation for the federal government to fund research on stem cells taken from spare embryos that fertility clinics would otherwise discard.

March 11th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - The foundation started by former Superman star Christopher Reeve has applauded President Barack Obama's new stem cell policy saying it 'harnessed the power of the federal government to move research forward' toward possible new therapies. Obama Monday reversed an eight-year-long government block on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a promising but controversial science, and rejected what he called a 'false choice' between science and morals.

March 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama plans to reverse a ban on government funding for embryonic stem cell research next week, fulfilling a campaign promise on what has long been a divisive moral issue in the US, media reported Friday. Obama will sign an executive order to that effect Monday, ending a policy adopted by former president George W.

June 22nd, 2007 More adults in the United States would like their federal government to change its current policy regarding stem cell research, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 22 per cent of respondents think there should be no restrictions on this type of scientific investigation, up 11 points in two years.

November 14th, 2006 Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who falsified stem cell research data, testified Tuesday that his team had never succeeded in cultivating stem cells matched to patients. Hwang Woo-suk, who once claimed to have produced the first cloned human embryonic stem cells, said he "succeeded in making blastocysts for tailored stem cells but there wasn't any success in cultivating (patient-specific) stem cells," his lawyer Jung Keun-hwa said after a trial hearing in Seoul.