We should wait for the investigations to inform us of what really happened. Not only important science, but scientific careers are at stake.

will be criticized as a diversion of good science by politics.

Human reproductive cloning should not now be practiced. It is dangerous and likely to fail.

The training grants, while they're in service of research by training people to work with stem cells, would not actually allow the research to go forward.

Any parties engaging in further delays of the state stem cell funding should consider the lives of those at risk to be their responsibility. While further delays by appeal are possible, one should note that such actions would delay research, which eventually could ameliorate disease and save human lives.

It's the best evidence yet that they are integrating and functioning. It's a nice advance.