1. Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research, as made available by the White House Press Office, August 9, 2001.
2. California and New Jersey have passed stem cell funding and regulation laws. The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed stem cell funding legislation by a margin large enough to override an expected veto by Governor Mitt Romney. New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware have had stem cell funding and regulation bills introduced in their respective legislatures.
3. Investigators from ten laboratories in the US, Australia, India, Israel and Sweden initially derived stem cells from 71 individual, genetically diverse blastocysts that met the President's criteria for use in federally funded hES cell research.
http://stemcells.nih.gov/research/registry/eligibilityCriteria.asp
4. http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/faqs.asp
5. NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry.
http://stemcells.nih.gov/research/registry/