Gordon Brown Quotes

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

I am all for stem cell research.

Legislation against this type of cloning [therapeutic] is Canute against the ocean …. medieval views must not hold back the future…. We need government as a partner, not as an enemy.

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

I'm always very excited about trying to do something on next-generation biotechnology and life sciences because I think if we can cure cancer or dementia, we can really make the future a lot better and I think these things are eminently doable.

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.