Sentences with phrase «banned federal funding for research»

Since 2001, the United States has banned federal funding for research on all but a few lines of embryonic cells.

To recap: On 23 August, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction freezing National Institutes of Health (NIH) support for hESC research because it likely violates the Dickey - Wicker law banning federal funds for research that harms embryos.

That law bans federal funding for research that destroys embryos.

The order severely restricts embryonic stem cell research to existing lines of cells and bans federal funding for any research expansion outside his directive.

Not exact matches

• President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.

Although he never banned this research outright, President Bush limited federal funding for research to the embryonic stem cell lines that existed before August 2001, thus drawing a line at destroying human embryos created after that date.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

The bill was put forth to loosen the restrictions Bush placed on human embryonic stem cell research on August 9, 2001, when he banned federal funding for work with any stem cell line created after that date.

When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.»

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is scrambling to push out research grants for work on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and has given a cautious all - clear to in - house stem cell researchers after an appeals court yesterday temporarily lifted a ban on federal funding for hESC research.

In March, President Barack Obama lifted Bush's ban on using federal funds for research on human embryonic stem cells derived after August 2001.

One of Bill Clinton's first presidential decisions was to lift a ban on federal funding for research with tissue from aborted fetuses.

Lamberth, who ordered a temporary ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cells research last August that an appeals court later overturned, is expected to issue a final ruling on the matter as soon as this summer.

Pro-embryo groups and others, including two scientists who study adult stem cells, argued that the NIH guidelines violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, a 16 - year - old law banning federal funds for «research in which... embryos are destroyed.»

On March 9, 2009, President Obama lifted the ban that had previously restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research on cell lines that had been created after August 9, 2001.

In 1995, Congress banned federal funding for destructive research into human embryos — the source of the most promising type of stem cells.

Meanwhile, groups looking for possible cures for devastating diseases, and seeing potential breakthroughs in other countries, urged Congress to cancel a federal funding ban on fetal tissue research imposed by Reagan and continued under President George H.W. Bush.

President Bill Clinton overturned the ban by executive order in 1993, and federal funding for fetal tissue research was formally authorized in a similar NIH bill passed later that year.