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The Pro-Life Times reported (July 02) "Tony Blair has raised the profile of his personal support for human embryo experiments in a speech to the. Royal Society, the country's leading scientific academy. Mr. Bair has pledged to make Britain "the best place in the world for stem cell research... "Professor Neil Scolding, the Burden professor of clinical neurosciences at the University of Bristol, said "Britain could very easily be the best place in the world for stem cell research, and treatments depending on stem cells, by using adult stem cells. We can make scientific progress without compromising ethical standards." The Medical Research Council is setting up the National Stem Cell Bank, to house both adult stem cells and those from human embryos. Nuala Scarisbrick, of LIFE, commented " We have to keep on saying one simple thing: these embryos are real living, human beings. This is the crucial, central fact"
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