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NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-for-this-debate-again dept.

sciencehabit writes "Responding to a court order issued a week ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday ordered intramural researchers studying human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to shut down their experiments. NIH's action — probably unprecedented in its history — is a response to a preliminary injunction on 23 August from US District Judge Royce Lamberth. The judge ruled that the Obama policy allowing NIH funding to be used to study hESC lines violates a law prohibiting the use of federal funds to destroy embryos."

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  1. Lets be fair then, by Kenja · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Everyone who is against stem cell research should be unable to ever benefit from the results of said research.

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  2. Re:Buy one get one? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There shouldn't be a need to weasel around this. I admin to being a Christian, but I refuse to allow the beliefs of anybody to get in the way of scientific research. These projects are important and the religious right needs to get off their damned high horse and let progress happen. These are the same people that years ago would have protested the use of antibiotics thinking that they would interfere with the divine will of their respective deities.

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