Study confirms limits on stem cell research

Friday, August 7, 2009 - 20:14 in Biology & Nature

Only a handful of available embryonic stem cell lines have been used by scientists, an analysis finds, attributing the figures in part to Bush-era policies. Scientists have long complained that the Bush administration's stem cell funding policy restricted their research to only a handful of human embryonic stem cell lines. A study published Friday in Nature Biotechnology confirms that the majority of lab...

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