NIH Stem Cell Policy Shift(s)?

On 5/10/2004, The Corpus Callosum noted a report that Nancy Reagan had spoken out in favor of expanded research using stem cells.  I don't know what it was that led me to post that; of all the news that day, it seemed noteworthy for some reason.  Now comes a report  in the WaPo that the director of NIH,  Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, (yes, that  Dr. Zerhouni -- see the post from yesterday) has written a letter to the US House of Representatives reflecting the President's stem cell policy.  A PDF of the letter is here.  In this post, I describe the possible policy shift that the letter may signal, and point out two things that the author of the article apparently missed. 

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