I recently complained about the lack of focus on alternatives to embryonic-stem-cell research in the public-policy debate.

Yesterday, the president’s bioethics council released a report on some of those alternatives. I haven’t had a chance to read it, but look forward to it. There are some potentially rich opportunities out there that are free of the moral problems of using embryos for (and creating them expressly for) research.

The report is here. May fresh conversations begin.