Stem cells is a very controversial topic in the United States today. Madison Wisconsin is the residence of The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center. Researchers in Madison Wisconsin working with cells receive millions of dollars in federal grant money.
Stem cells are considered a master cell to the human body. From a stem cell any tissue on the body can be generated. Health organizations believe stem cell research holds the solution to treatments for spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease, and other functional physical deficits.
Stem cells are seperated from a human being in the embryonic stages of development. Separating the stem cells from the human being in the embryonic stages of development results in death. The Dickey- Wicker amendment (a 1996 law) prohibits the use of tax payer dollars in work that destroys a human embryo.
Following the Dickey- Wicker amendment stem cell researchers used private companies (no use of public money) to separate the stem cells from the human being in the embryonic stages of development. From the separated stem cells researchers started growing batches of stem cells in the laboratory.
Researchers were now using stem cells grown in labs. Growing the stem cells in a laboratory allowed the research facility to accept public money (federal grants) to fund the projects. In late August 2010 United States District Judge Royce Lamberth blocked goverment funding of embryonic stem cell research. Judge Royce Lamberth signed the restraining order after ruling that the argument in a pending lawsuit- that the research violates the intent of the 1996 law prohibiting use of tax payer dollars in work that destroys a human embryo- was likely to succeed.
Stem cell research using public money was stopped in health organizations across the United States.
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