Stem-cell decision is no threat to federal science funding

How to Conduct Non-Federal Stem Cell Research Without Violating the Federal Stem Cell Funding Prohibition

The purpose of this article is to help federally funded research institutions answer the question of how recipients of federal research funding can conduct research involving human embryonic stem cells without running afoul of the Bush administration's broad prohibition of the use of federal funds in such research.

Federal funding for stem cell research: 15 years of indecision.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www.jci.org Volume 121 Number 7 July 2011 2531 Federal funding for stem cell research: 15 years of indecision In the US, the battle over whether to devote government funding to ES cell research has waged since the Dickey-Wicker amendment passed in 1996, banning federal funding of work that involved the destruction of human embryos. In the ensuing yea...

Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research : Is the NIH ’ s legal line between ES cell derivation and research ethically

Pluripotent Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) offer promising therapeutic potential for a number of fatal and otherwise untreatable diseases (National Institutes of Health, 1999). In 1998, privately funded research conducted at the University of Wisconsin by Dr. James Thomson yielded the first human stem cell line derived from early embryos donated by couples no longer needing them for procreativ...

Federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research--illegal, unethical and unnecessary.

Federal funding and the regulation of embryonic stem cell research: the Pontius Pilate maneuver.