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Published online 10 September 2008 | Nature 455, 143 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455143a
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In the second of our election-themed podcasts available online, Nature looks at where US biomedical research might head after November's presidential election. Excerpts from our panel discussion:
How are we going to structure our biomedical research enterprise, our graduate training and our undergraduate training for the next generation of scientists? Republicans and Democrats should be able to pull in the same direction on these issues."
Thomas Cech, president, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland
"The prohibition on federal funding of most human embryonic stem-cell research has been an enormous wet blanket on the whole research enterprise in this area.
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