“The most positive development in American stem cell research in recent months may have occurred in a courtroom rather than in a laboratory. Earlier this week, US District Judge Royce Lamberth granted an injunction banning Federal funding for the research. He found that a lawsuit brought by two researchers would probably succeed in the courts. This overturns not only President Barack Obama’s guidelines for research on embryonic stem cells, but also President George W. Bush’s more restrictive ones.” Read more . . .
September 1, 2010