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Science 24 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5841, p. 1009
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149332
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Editorial

STEM--But No Stem

Donald Kennedy

Two converging events took place on 9 August that ought to have the scientific community scratching its collective head. One of these is an anniversary: On that date in 2001, President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order banning any use of federal funds to support research on stem cells (save, of course, for those 78 preexisting cell lines, only 21 of which are available). That position is reiterated most recently in another Executive Order after Bush's veto of the 2007 Senate bill (S.5) that would have authorized stem cell research.

Donald Kennedy is Editor-in-Chief of Science.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)