Government
Senate might consider stem cell bill
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted July 4, 2005
Coming under increased pressure from supporters of expanding stem cell research funding, Senate leaders have said they could schedule a floor vote as early as this month on legislation similar to that passed by the House in May. The measures would overturn Bush administration policy, which limits federal research funding to the study of embryonic stem cell lines that were established before August 2002.
The bills allow funds doled out by the National Institutes of Health to be spent on new lines of stem cells that are created following guidelines designed to ensure that the embryos from which they are derived would have been destroyed anyway.
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