Today, a three-judge panel of a US Appeals Court lifted an injunction against the NIH's revised policy on the funding of stem cell research. The new policy, which would open up research funding to many more human embryonic stem cell lines (hESCs), attracted a lawsuit from researchers who focus on adult stem cells, who claimed that their chances of obtaining grants had been diminished. That suit produced an injunction that would block the National Institutes of Health from distributing funding for hESC work. The Appeals Court had previously stayed this injunction; now it has lifted it entirely, although the case is continuing towards trial at the District Court level.
For decades, legislation called the Dickey-Wicker Amendment has prevented the US government from funding research in which a human embryo is destroyed. Everyone agrees that this prohibits funding of work in which hESCs are derived through the destruction of fertilized eggs. Differences arise, however, regarding research that involves hESCs that have been previously created. President Bush's administration determined that this is acceptable, provided that the ESC creation occurred prior to a specific date. President Obama's administration lifted this temporal restriction; work on previously created hESC lines is now eligible for funding, regardless of creation date.
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