LINCOLN -- NU President J.B. Milliken on Friday told the Board of Regents that state law and policy permits the expansion of stem cell research.
Milliken said he would recommend that University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers be allowed to use new lines of embryonic stem cells when they are approved by the federal government.
The university president's statement, which was emphatically endorsed by Med Center Chancellor Harold Maurer and by Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman, came after more than an hour of public comment on whether Nebraska should permit the research to expand.
The Board of Regents has yet to take action. It is anticipated that they will consider the issue at the board's November meeting.
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