{"id":690,"date":"2008-10-23T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-10-23T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:55:40","slug":"stem-cells-at-cork-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Stem cells at Cork university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like University College Cork will be the first institution in Ireland to allow the use of embryonic stem cells for research.\u00a0 According to a report in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecho.ie\"><em>Evening Echo<\/em><\/a>, a local paper in Cork, the university president is in favour of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The advantage to hunmanity offered by the use of embryonic cells in research over-rides any argument against it. This research is taking place in universities the world over. If we are to remain cutting-edge scientists in Ierland, to compete with other international universities in being successful, this research is essential.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The governing body votes on the plan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like University College Cork will be the first institution in Ireland to allow the use of embryonic stem cells for research.\u00a0 According to a report in the Evening Echo, a local paper in Cork, the university president is in favour of it. &#8220;The advantage to hunmanity offered by the use of embryonic cells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}