Stem cell research has been very touchy subject over the years. All in all, we as a human race can only benefit from it in the long run.

Advocates of embryonic stem cell research from the fields of academia, politics, health care and medicine -- including South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk -- are plotting ways to quell opposition and get the research money flowing.

"The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic," said Bernard Siegel, executive director of the Genetics Policy Institute, the host of the meeting at Baylor Medical Center. "Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are the brutal state-by-state battles being waged for this research."

This is the type of red tape that seems to be slowing down the breakthroughs science is making and preventing lighting speed growth like in the computer industry.