Appeals court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research

**Curt James** · 04-29-2011, 02:41 PM

Appeals court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research

By Bill Mears, CNN Senior Producer

UPDATED: 12:46 PM EDT 04.29.11

A federal court has given the Obama administration the go-ahead to continue funding embryonic stem cell research.

The controversial 2-1 decision Friday is a victory for supporters of federally funded testing for a range of diseases and illnesses.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia lifted an injunction imposed last year by a federal judge, who said all embryonic stem cell research at the National Institutes of Health amounted to destruction of embryos, in violation of congressional spending laws.

Legislation passed in 1996 prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars in the creation or destruction of human embryos "for research purposes."

Private money had been used to gather batches of the developing cells at U.S.-run labs. The current administration had broken with the Bush White House and issued rules in 2009 permitting those cells to be reproduced in controlled conditions and for work on them to move forward.

Obama officials have been at odds with many members of Congress over whether the NIH research actually causes an embryo's destruction, as prohibited by the Dickey-Wicker Act.

Two scientists had brought a lawsuit to block further research. But the three-judge panel concluded in their 21-page ruling, "the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail because Dickey-Wicker is ambiguous and the NIH seems reasonably to have concluded" that the law does not ban research using embryonic stem cells.

From CNN.com

**Prince** · 04-29-2011, 02:51 PM

Awesome!

FUCK YOU GWB!

**KelJu** · 04-29-2011, 02:55 PM

Its about fucking time.

**myCATpowerlifts** · 04-29-2011, 03:26 PM

Tried repping everyone in this thread but could only give to curt

**Curt James** · 04-29-2011, 07:39 PM

Uploaded October 2008.

**Curt James** · 04-29-2011, 07:41 PM

Uploaded today (April 29, 2011).

**GearsMcGilf** · 04-29-2011, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by Prince

Awesome!

FUCK YOU GWB!

Werd. Agreed on this one. Now let's also lift the ban on off shore drilling and get serious about energy independence since our motorcars aren't going to be running on any kind of "green juice" anytime in the near future.

**bio-chem** · 04-29-2011, 08:17 PM

now lets get a cure for Parkinson's.

**maniclion** · 04-29-2011, 08:17 PM

I got some stem cells, from the stem of my cock-a-diddle-do....gonna grow me a few extra inches

...of girth to be sure

**MDR** · 04-29-2011, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by Curt James

Appeals court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research

By Bill Mears, CNN Senior Producer

UPDATED: 12:46 PM EDT 04.29.11

A federal court has given the Obama administration the go-ahead to continue funding embryonic stem cell research.

The controversial 2-1 decision Friday is a victory for supporters of federally funded testing for a range of diseases and illnesses.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia lifted an injunction imposed last year by a federal judge, who said all embryonic stem cell research at the National Institutes of Health amounted to destruction of embryos, in violation of congressional spending laws.

Legislation passed in 1996 prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars in the creation or destruction of human embryos "for research purposes."

Private money had been used to gather batches of the developing cells at U.S.-run labs. The current administration had broken with the Bush White House and issued rules in 2009 permitting those cells to be reproduced in controlled conditions and for work on them to move forward.

Obama officials have been at odds with many members of Congress over whether the NIH research actually causes an embryo's destruction, as prohibited by the Dickey-Wicker Act.

Two scientists had brought a lawsuit to block further research. But the three-judge panel concluded in their 21-page ruling, "the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail because Dickey-Wicker is ambiguous and the NIH seems reasonably to have concluded" that the law does not ban research using embryonic stem cells.

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Very exciting news!

**LAM** · 04-29-2011, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf

Werd. Agreed on this one. Now let's also lift the ban on off shore drilling and get serious about energy independence since our motorcars aren't going to be running on any kind of "green juice" anytime in the near future.

of course not look at the money these people have to work with it's a joke, peanuts. I spent 5million dollars in 2000 building a DSL test facility myself when I worked at Agilent just on routers, traffic generators and wire line simulators.

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