{"id":1063486,"date":"2013-05-19T02:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/weissman-says-oregon-style-stem-cell-research-could-be-done-in-california\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:29:52","slug":"weissman-says-oregon-style-stem-cell-research-could-be-done-in-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/weissman-says-oregon-style-stem-cell-research-could-be-done-in-california-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Weissman Says Oregon-style Stem Cell Research Could be Done in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Stanford<\/b> researcher&nbsp;<b>Irv Weissman<\/b> says it<br>is &ldquo;not true&rdquo; that Oregon's stem cell research could not be done<br>legally in California.<\/p><div><\/div><div>In a brief email to the <b>California Stem<br>Cell Report<\/b>, he commented in connection with <a href=\"http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.mx\/2013\/05\/oregon-style-stem-cell-cloning-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday's item that said because the Oregon researchers used paid donors for eggs,the research would be illegal in the Golden State.<\/a><\/div><div><\/div><div>Weissman said,&nbsp;<\/div><blockquote><p>\"Not true. They did<br>it with nearly 40 percent efficiency, which does not require paying<br>for eggs, just use leftovers from IVF clinics.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><div>There is no question that it is illegal<br>to pay donors for their eggs in California. The question is whether<br>the research could be done without using paid donors. In recent<br>years,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-10\/cp-loc100311.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> researchers at Harvard and elsewhere have said they needed paid donors<\/a>&nbsp;to properly perform their research<br>and could not find them without providing compensation.<\/div><div><\/div><div>We have queried <b>Shoukhrat Mitalipov <\/b>in<br>Oregon concerning his views on Weissman's comments. We welcome other<br>comments as well. Comments can be filed directly by clicking on the word \"comment\" at the end of this item or you can email them to <a href=\"mailto:djensen@californiastemcellreport.com\">djensen@californiastemcellreport.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>We should also note the comment from<br>researcher <b>Paul Knoepfler<\/b> of <b>UC Davis<\/b> who notes that SCNT cloning is<br>permissible in California, which is what was done in Oregon. The<br>state does ban reproductive cloning, however.<\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1c921_vlJ5XeK4AOU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/vlJ5XeK4AOU\/weissman-says-oregon-style-stem-cell.html\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/vlJ5XeK4AOU\/weissman-says-oregon-style-stem-cell.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford researcher&nbsp;Irv Weissman says itis &ldquo;not true&rdquo; that Oregon's stem cell research could not be donelegally in California.In a brief email to the California StemCell Report, he commented in connection with yesterday's item that said because the Oregon researchers used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/weissman-says-oregon-style-stem-cell-research-could-be-done-in-california-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1246878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy","category-stem-cells"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}