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Paper Scenes: Appreciating Engraved Paper Creations was posted May 31 07 at the design show forum at Yesky.com, a  popular Chinese IT portal.  The photos came from a Netease BBS, apparently, but a quick Baidu search didn’t turn up anything more, and there’s no artist attribution. I don’t even know if it’s Chinese, frankly, but [...]

Jill Rowbotham and Tracy Ong

Dismayed church leaders have failed to pressure NSW parliamentarians in the lower house to vote down a bill overturning a ban on embryonic stem cell research.

As the NSW Legislative Assembly became the latest house of parliament to approve the ground-breaking technology with an overwhelming 65-26 conscience vote, the [...]

The Judiciary Committee Hearing on LB700 has received media coverage throughout the state: Click on these links to review the coverage.
Omaha World-Herald on Thursday, March 8
Human cloning issue is an emotional one
Omaha World-Herald on Thursday, March 8
Speakers offer personal take on cloning bill
Lincoln Journal Star on Wednesday, March 7
Anti-cloning bill brings [...]

Monnie Lindsay, left, and Keith Knudsen talk with Sen. Lowen Kruse about LB 700.

by Karen Burbach, UNMC public affairs
Seventh-grader Megan Berens has had diabetes for seven years. On Wednesday, the 13-year-old told Judiciary Committee members she hopes for a cure so she can “live without fear.” [...]

UNMC graduate student Wade Junker shares his thoughts on a complex topic.
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is indeed different from what is called Reproductive Cloning. Many fear that SCNT could lead to the cloning of a human individual. The fact is, this is a very remote possibility and the NU system already has policies and [...]

An excerpt from a letter shared with the Judiciary Committee and written by Jean E. Robillard, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa:
Over the long term, I am confident that the research that has been enabled by the lifting of the ban will ultimately lead to remarkable [...]

There were a number of reasons Laurie Miller of Nebraska City urged lawmakers to vote against LB 700. Here she explains.
The research is important to me for several reasons. First, as a wife of a type one diabetic I live with the daily reminders of how debilitating chronic illnesses are. My husband and I are [...]

Dianne Epp of Lincoln came to the State Capitol today to oppose LB 700 and retain hope for patients, including her husband who has Parkinson’s disease.
Continuing stem cell research is critical if we are to make progress finding cures for debilitating illnesses such as Juvenile Diabetes and Parkinson’s. As the wife of a Parkinson’s patient, [...]

Megan Whitmore shared her story with state senators today, asking them to oppose LB 700 and not “let down chronically and terminally ill people.”
My name is Megan Whitmore and I am a 19 year old college student. I’ve had Juvenile or Type 1, diabetes since I was six years old. When I was ten, my [...]

Brian Andersen of Gretna explains why he opposes LB 700.
Stem cell research is a valuable tool for fighting, among other things, diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes. As a member of the board of directors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Lincoln, Nebraska chapter, I think it is extremely important that the brilliant researchers of [...]