Brownback would probably like to  take Jim Finn's fetal pig cells.

      JANUARY 16, 2006 

              
            


              







           
      SPECIAL REPORT 

      What's Ethical And What Isn't? 
      The debate over human cells in animals 

      As Stanford University professor Irving Weissman reflects on his lifelong quest to solve the mysteries of cancer, he bristles at the prospect that his work could be outlawed. A bill sponsored by Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced last spring would make it a crime to place human brain cells in animals. That means Weissman's work -- which involves transplanting human brain-tumor cells into mice -- could conceivably land the 65-year-old scientist behind bars.  

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