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The Geron Corporation's human embryo stem cell experiment was covered by ABC's John McKenzie and NBC's Robert Bazell. Bazell pointed out that Geron's was among the few stem cell projects that have been active over the past eight years. When then-President George Bush banned federal funding for research in 2001, "the effect was to stop much of the science." The Geron experiment has the limited goal of finding out whether the injection of the embryonic cells, already performed on paralyzed rats, is "safe in people," ABC's McKenzie explained, rather than being designed for actual therapy. It will first be tested on eight or ten recently injured spinal cord patients. NBC's Bazell predicted that the ban on federal funding for such research may be revoked "as early as next week."
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