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Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Leaders of the Nation’s Medical Schools Protest Stem Cell Ruling

Posted in Biotechnology, Dickey-Wicker Amendment, Health care, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Law, Law Links, Policy, Public Policy Debate, Regulation, Science, Society, Technology on September 2nd, 2010

A diverse group of top scholars at the nation’s leading medical schools is appealing to Congress to pass legislation that ensures continued federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research under the NIH’s current rigoorous and ethical guidelines.  They are appealing to be allowed, with immediate effect, to resume the many research projects that have been put on hold, and possibly destroyed, by the results of the recent court ruling.

Click here to review the statement and signatories.


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