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DAILY BLOG | Breaking News and Analysis

New Stem Cell Rules

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Posted by Tom McFeely

Monday, July 06, 2009 1:12 PM

Go here to read an Associated Press report about the new “final rules” for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, released a short time ago today by the National Institutes for Health.

The rules are a follow-up to the new federal stem-cell guidelines announced in March by President Barack Obama. Pro-lifers condemned the new rules for allowing funding for research that involves stem... READ MORE


 

NIH Stem-Cell Guidelines

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Posted by Tom McFeely

Friday, April 17, 2009 2:33 PM

The National Institutes of Health specified today that federal funding of life-killing research involving human embryos would be allowed for so-called “surplus” embryos creating through in vitro fertilization treatments.

“We are likely to increase greatly the number of human embryonic stem cells available for federal funding,” acting NIH director Raynard Kington told a telephone briefing, Permalink Filed under national institutes of health, stem-cell research


 

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