Last week, a federal judge ruled that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is legal. The decision in Sherley v. Sebelius ends 11 months of uncertainty about whether hESC research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would suddenly be shut down. It also caps a decade of ups and downs with stem cell policy that began on 9 August 2001 when President George W. Bush announced that NIH would fund research on hESCs--albeit only on existing cell lines.
This is Jocelyn Kaiser, a news writer for Science magazine. In today's chat, we're talking about last week's court decision finding that federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research is legal. We'll discuss what's next for Sherley v. Sebelius and what it's like to work in an area of research where policies are always changing. Guest Hank Greely, a law professor at Stanford, is here now and we're hoping to be joined later by Amander Clark, a stem cell researcher at UCLA. Let's start with a question for Hank.
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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/live-chat-the-future-of-stem-cel.html
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