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US Stem-Cell Chaos Felt Abroad
from Nature News
"If the ruling stands, our collaboration is severely curtailed," wrote Benoit Bruneau in an e-mail to a UK-based colleague last week. Bruneau is a developmental biologist at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, whose work relies on funds from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
He had only recently established a partnership with Roger Pedersen, a human embryonic stem-cell scientist at the University of Cambridge, UK, to study a particular family of genes that has a prominent role in the development of cardiomyocytes--the specialized cells of heart muscle.
... Bruneau was planning to dip into a large consortium grant from the NIH to fund his part of the planned work. ... But an injunction on 23 August by US district judge Royce Lamberth temporarily blocking federal funds allocated for human embryonic stem-cell research has thrown the collaboration's survival into question.
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