Stem Cell Research blocked again by US Court
By RICHARD ADAMS - GUARDIAN
Added: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:35:47 UTC
US government funding for research using embryonic stem cells has been thrown into disarray after a judge ruled that it violates laws prohibiting the destruction of human embryos.
The effect of the temporary injunction, by district court judge Royce Lamberth, bars federal funding for studies on stem cells derived from human embryos that are later discarded, which had been allowed by President Obama's executive order last year.
The judge ruled that the research violated the Dickey-Wicker amendment first passed by Congress in 1995, which outlawed the use of taxpayer funds to carry out any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed".
The New York Times reported that the ruling came as a shock to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and at medical research universities across the US: "Scientists scrambled Monday evening to assess the ruling's immediate impact on their work."
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