Hidden Toll of Embryo Wars
Nature News3/14/11 At its heart, the ongoing legal battle to block US federal funding for research on human embryonic...Nature News
3/14/11
At its heart, the ongoing legal battle to block US federal funding for research on human embryonic stem (ES) cells seeks to protect embryos.
But Nature has learned that in a bitter irony, the dispute seems to be holding up research on lines of human ES cells that can be derived without destroying embryos. The delay is also hampering work that researchers say could help to make adult cells a viable source of stem cells for therapies in a wide range of diseases.