"It would be unethical for us to turn our back on these people and not conduct the research that is so desperately needed to develop the drugs to treat these diseases and the vaccines to prevent them in the future."
VOA: standard.2010.02.16
The campaign was launched to help support the University of Dundee's efforts to develop a research programme focusing on the cause and treatment of diabetes.
Peers in parliament's upper chamber voted by 212 to 92 on Monday to allow research using stem cells to develop treatments for killer diseases such as leukaemia, Parkinson's and cancer.