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NIH Releases New Stem Cell Rules

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health released guidelines governing requirements (and limitations) for federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cells. These rules supersede rules promulgated during the Bush administration that so severely constrained the number of funding-eligible human stem cell lines as to effectively prohibit use of federal funds for this research. These Guidelines were promulgated by Acting Director Raynard S. Kington, and will became effective today, July 7, 2009. The new Guidelines are expected to make up to 700 existing human embryonic stem cell lines eligible for federal funding, a ten-fold increase...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).