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Texas passes controversial stem cell regulations

18 April 2012

DON’T mess with Texas? The US government may have little choice now that the Lone Star State has adopted stem cell rules that seem to clash with federal regulations. Critics say the new rules could put patients at risk.

On 13 April, the voted to intended to give doctors “a reasonable and responsible degree of latitude” in using experimental stem cell therapies.

This latitude is too broad, critics argue. “They seem to have taken experimental research and swept it into the practice of medicine,” says , a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota…

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