[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8414]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MINNESOTA STEM CELL ADVANCES

  (Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, stem cell researchers at the 
University of Minnesota and BioE, a company in my home State, have 
reported that they have successfully differentiated cord blood stem 
cells into lung cells.
  This potential breakthrough would extend the promise of stem cell 
research to a treatment of many respiratory conditions. And just this 
past February, researchers at the University of Minnesota discovered 
the potential application of cord blood stem cells in nerve tissue 
regeneration.
  This research reinforces the importance of the Stem Cell Therapeutic 
and Research Act we passed last year, and why we must fully fund the 
stem cell research it authorized.
  This research out of my home State of Minnesota reminds us that stem 
cell research that respects life is already being used to provide 
astonishing miracles for devastating diseases.

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