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BuyArade old rugs. ments: A limited number of ones created before 2001, many in ways that make human use problematic if not impossible - or potentially Mon-Sat DIRECT IMPORTER OF THE WORLD'S FINEST RUGS thousands of newer stem cells, culled 10 a m 3092 So. Highland Dr. (about 1400 E.) from fertility clinic leftovers otherwise destined to be thrown away. to 6 pm Salt Lake Ciry • (801) 484-6364 (888) 44S-RUGS (7847) Many scientists insist these would be better suited for implantation into sick Americans. Embryonic stem cells are essentially master cells, able to morph into all the cell types found in the body. If scientists could learn to control those 1 * * '•*•> \ •L?t i - * munm . - • . . . Gallery Fueling Your Fleet coMPosmAvailable MDF&. Baas Wood 1 WEEK DELIVERY 2 1 / 2 ' • 3 1/2" - 4 1 / 2 ' cells and coax them into becoming specific types on demand, they potentially could grow replacements for damaged tissue - new insulinproducing cells for Type 1 diabetics or new nerve connections to restore movement after spinal injury, for example. The controversy: Scientists take those cells from a five-day-old embryo, when it's a ball of about 100 cells barely visible without a microscope - but the culling kills the embryo. Bush likened that to abortion when on Aug. 9, 2001, he restricted government funding to research using only the embryonic stem cell "lines" then in existence, groups of stem cells kept alive and propagating in lab dishes. The new legislation, poised to pass the Senate but facing a veto by Bush, wouldn't fund the creation of new stem cell lines - and hence any embryo destruction - but would let the National Institutes of Health fund research using newer stem cells in the pursuit of treatments. Five states aren't waiting for a break in the federal stalemate but arc funding embryonic stem cell research themselves: California voters approved a $3 billion initiative now being fought in court; Connecticut has a 10-year, $100 million initiative; Illinois spent $10 million last year; Maryland has approved a $15 million budget; and 24TO0' 7 Colon 2 Sim 3 VkUace Srflc< W«kDel|v«v See Store for Detail* lOO't of Colon Energy Efficient Low Miintenentt Top Down • Bottom up Skytigha FiK Delhrrv 75TC84" Several Colon 'Valance Extra Available Flit Tear Drop Top Down Boaom-Up Cordleu 9 Ptnems 18 Pinzroj 100 Colon SkyUghn Angle Windows Room Darkening Arctic* Fut Delivery or Wand No Extra Charge 1 Week Delivery OREM Mon-Fri 9-5:30 Sat 11-3 SALT LAKE 225-6977 SHOWROOM 2432 So. State 732-1666 90 DAYS 487-5662 OGDEN SAME AS CASH New Jersey has spent about $25 million in two years. In the Senate, opponents argue against the need to work with embryonic ceils, saying adult stem cells found in various tissues, such as blood-producing stem cells found in bone marrow or umbilical cord blood, provide an embryo-free alternative. "We do not need to treat humans as raw material," Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., said Monday. "It is immoral for us to do it." Scientists are avidly studying adult stem cells, too, with roughly $200 million in financial aid from the NIH this year, far more than for embryonic stem cells. But despite 50 years of research so far, adult stem cells' main use today is through bone marrow transplants to counteract intense cancer chemotherapy or to treat only a handful of other disorders, researchers wrote in the journal Science last week. "The politicians kind of set us up against each other but ... the scientists are not arguing about this. We are working together," University of Minnesota stem cell researcher Men Firpo said in an interview. She has worked with all types, and created two of the Bush-approved embryonic stem cell lines and 11 newer lines with private money. Added Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate and former NIH director "I do believe in the very long run it will be possible to learn enough about how celJs change their behavior to take perhaps any kind of cell and make it do anything." But that's harder to do and could Errors plague vouchers SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A new computer system used to dispense food vouchers to.67,000 low-income families isriddledwith programming errors arid may have to be replaced, according to consultants hired by the Utah Department of Health. The consultants said the programming errors are so numerous that debugging them is nearly impossible. But rather than replacing the system, health officials have decided to patch up the program. That's what the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommended. The department oversees the food voucher program for women, infants and children. "The time and cost of scrapping the troubled software prohibits us from doing that," said Utah's Women, Infant and Children program manager, Kevin Condra. economical of All Repairing the program should take about eight months, Condra said. In March, the state health department roiled out new Windows software to run the WIC program. The software replaced a 10-year-old DOS-based system that officials say had outlived its usefulness. But the new system proved to be problematic. Because of frequent crashes, client data has been lost and appointments have been dropped, causing scheduling problems. At some WIC clinics, clients waited as long as four hours to be cleared for aid. The software also doubleissued food vouchers. Denver-based USDA programmer Booz Allen Hamilton reported that the current system, while flawed, is improving and that replacing .it would, be too^srtiptive -and costly. ,-ji Quality Child Care j for Park City Families j NATIVE LANDSCAPING Cleanest and mosf take far longer, while thefirstembryonic stem cell studies in people might begin within five years, he added. So what are the biggest hurdles for embryonic stem cells? They involve both science and paperwork, and Minnesota's Firpo embodies both: •In her quest to develop insulinproducing cells to treat diabetes, she runs one lab for her NIH-funded research and a separate lab for research funded by her university and private groups, even though both labs do the same studies. Because private grants are smaller than NIH's multiyear grants, her privately funded experiments go into the freezer when that money runs out and she has to raise more. •Firpo created her newer stem cells in ways safer for transplantation. When she created her two Bush-approved batches, "we never thought these cell lines would be used clinically," she explained, describing how basic researchers don't follow the Food and Drug Administration's rules for actual therapies. •Scientifically, researchers are reporting great strides in getting embryonic stem cells to form the tissues they want. The question is whether they'll continue to work properly when implanted into the body, a big safety question. "They need to stay in the right place, stay alive and need to function correctly. Those are the parts we're just beginning with," says Firpo. "It's hard to predict what timeline that's going to take." i ; Au Pairs provide exceptional live-in child care j and flexible 45 hour work weeks. All Au Pairs j are highly trained and ready to help your i children blossom and grow. 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