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News from the National Academies conference in Irvine, California this week. Moreno, Charo, Lo are quoted. “R. Alta Charo, a bioethics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told the audience that, for anyone who believes embryonic stem-cell research is unregulated and has slipped through the cracks, she had brought 35 slides dedicated solely to the field’s current regulations.”

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