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The "sacred" lines, according to Bush, were those created after his speech on August 9, 2001: Report: Stanford, CIRM may stop research on some fed-approved stem cell lines San Francisco Business Times " Report: Stanford, CIRM may stop research on some fed-approved stem cell lines [07/28/2008] Stem cell institute facing another layer of red tape [07/25/2008] Stem cell funds face roadblock [07/25/2008] Picking up the annual meeting tab after plans go awry at Cryo-Cell [07/25/2008] New VC fund aims for dozen stem cell firms [07/25/2008] Stanford University and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine are considering stopping research on some of the 21 human stem cell lines approved to receive federal funding because of potential ethical problems about the line's creation, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stanford and San Francisco-based CIRM -- the $3 billion state agency created when California voters approved the sale of bonds to fund embryonic stem cell research -- along with Johns Hopkins University have stopped or may stop research on five of the 21 lines that President Bush in August 2001 deemed acceptable for federal funding, The Chronicle of Higher Education said in an article today. Some embryonic stem cell donors were not properly informed before donating their cells, University of Wisconsin bioethicist Robert Streiffer said in an article he wrote that appeared in the May-June issue of the Hastings Center Report. In one case, a donor of embryos was told that all cells would be destroyed after the initial study was completed. New consent forms would be a "significant improvement" over those used with the National Institutes of Health lines, Streiffer wrote. "If federal funding were available for research with new lines derived with improved consent, then researchers using federal funding would not have to restrict their research in important ways to avoid using cell lines with problematic or limited consent," he wrote. "That would certainly be ethically preferable to the current situation." Stanford officials told The Chronicle of Higher Education that a final decision hasn't been made on the stem cell line it uses. CIRM, which doesn't do research directly but funds research that may involve the lines in question, may refer the issue to its ethics board, the publication said. Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn