Re:We're not persuing this as fast as we can becau (Score 1)

I sure hope this is the same Fred Thompson the former senator (and current actor). You provide a reasonable post, but to lend any credence to Senator Frist, who should have his medical license revoked for have the arrogance to make the horrific misdiagnosis of T. Schiavo, is misguided. The fact that stem cells are merely pluripotent and not "immortal" has been well-known. The five current viable stem-cell strains have been made "quasi-immortal" due, in part, to murine cells that were added - thereby tainting the lines. I agree that some sort of "ONUS" like network to retard tissue trafficking, just like organ control, is warranted. Then again, you're speaking like a smart person. I am getting the distinct impression that the moment one enters Congress, one contracts a local virus (Rhabdomyeles insanitarium, perhaps?) which makes Congressional members impervious to common sense, the Scientific method or anything else that would reasonably resemble intelligence. I am a third-year PhD student in solid-state chemistry/physics and am personally planning on making as much money as possible and getting the hell out of the US, as this country tragically seems to be regressing back to Puritan times. I love this country, but I have no intention of hanging around while nutjobs like Santorum, Joe Barton and Frist couch their sincerely inhuman beliefs in comfy, feel-good rhetoric.