Stem Cell Research is...Back?

Today I got a breaking news story about stem cell research. As seen from the headline, stem cell research is in full swing. The National Institutes of Health were asked to re-write guidelines to make it easier to conduct stem cell research while still being ethical, because of the potential lives it could save. It interested me because many have been criticizing President Obama for not accomplishing a lot in his first year in office. The stem cell debate is something I also do not really understand. The article itself makes sure that readers are informed as to what is going to be done in the labs, detailing the process. In it, it says that the stem cell lines are from embryos that were tested and proved to be rejected for fertility, which to me says that they would go to waste. The only thing the article did not fully explain is what stem cell lines were in the beginning, but this is because this story is still in development. The article is well-written for being a breaking news story and having little time to form a coherent story.